Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many applications to work have been refused and (b) for what reasons by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in each of the last four years.
The Department does not hold the information requested.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom and is responsible for nurse and midwife registration.