Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the potential effect on immigration numbers of the demand for non-UK nurses in each of the next five years.

Employers wishing to sponsor non-EEA nurses must do so under the Tier 2 (General) category, which is subject to an annual limit of 20,700 places. Those occupations such as nurses that are currently on the Shortage Occupation List are prioritised within the limit.