Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) nurses, and (2) doctors, whose countries of origin are outside the UK, are working in the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The latest data shows that, on a headcount basis, as at December 2019 there were:

- 35,204 non-United Kingdom national doctors, that is 29% of all doctors (excluding unknowns); and

- 56,805 non-UK national nurses and health visitors, that is 18% of all nurses and health visitors (excluding unknowns).