Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received from NHS trusts on safeguards for EU nationals working in the NHS after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement.

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health meets with National Health Service trusts regularly, both at the Department and on his visits to the NHS frontline. He discusses a range of issues, including how we can ensure that the NHS has the workforce that it needs in order to deliver safe and high quality care.

Currently a quarter of our doctors come from overseas. They do a fantastic job. When it comes to those who are European Union nationals, we have been clear we want them to be able to stay post-Brexit.