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Foreign Workers: Health Professions

Volume 463: debated on Tuesday 24 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what data were used to make statements in the Race Equality Impact Assessment on the changes in immigration rules for postgraduate doctors and dentists, where those data are not provided within the assessment itself. (149762)

The Race Equality Impact Assessment on the changes in the immigration rules for postgraduate doctors and dentists drew upon management information provided by Work Permits (UK) and discussions with the Department for Health on the increasing competition for training programmes.