Health Services and Social Services: Recruitment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of the proposed changes in the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, on health and social care recruitment in Scotland.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
Health and Social Care are devolved. Regional partnerships are working with devolved administrations to support international care workers access vacancies in the devolved nations. In England, domestic recruitment is being boosted through Fair Pay Agreements, new career structures, and £12m for training. The SNP’s 2021 manifesto promised to have a National Care Service, instead their chaotic and damaging approach was condemned by stakeholders, and a stripped-down Bill has cost £30m and is still to pass through Holyrood.
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