Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect on the NHS of the new immigration rules being introduced from April 2016.

The Home Office published a full impact assessment on the changes to Tier 2 settlement rules when they were laid before Parliament on 15 March 2012.

The impact assessment is available on the gov.uk website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/117957/impact-assessment-tier2.pdf.