To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses recruited to the NHS from outside the European Union (i) were found guilty of malpractice in each of the last five years and (ii) are being investigated for malpractice. (128944)

The Department does not collect this information centrally. The General Medical Council and the General Nursing and Midwifery Council hold the register of doctors and nurses who practise in the United Kingdom, and make decisions on investigations and erasure from their registers.