(Lab): In
response to a question from my noble friend about tier 2
visas and recruiting medical professionals from overseas, the
Government said:
“It is appropriate to take doctors only from countries that have
their own very effective medical systems. To take them from
third-world and developing countries is not
acceptable”.—[Official Report, 12/6/18; col. 1575.]
That reply indicates there must be a government list of some sort
of both third-world and developing countries from which it is
deemed not acceptable to take doctors. There will be interest in
which nations are included in the list of developing countries,
in particular, from which it is considered not acceptable by the
Government to take doctors; and, not least, how many and which
countries from the Indian subcontinent are on that government
list. Can the Minister make sure that the government list in
question—in whatever form it exists and to which reference on
this issue was made by the Government last week—is made available
to Members of this House.
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of
Trafford) (Con): I can answer the question about doctors
from India because we issue a huge number of visas to them. As to
recruitment from third- world countries—I did not answer the
question from my noble friend —rather than guess at it I
shall get back to the noble Lord on those countries, although I
suspect that there is not such a list.
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