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Migrant Workers: Health Services

Asked by Melanie OnnLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 17 December 2025UIN 98819

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration her Department has made of possible exemptions for health care workers on indefinite leave to remain rules to ensure sufficient staffing levels remain within the NHS.

Answered by Mike Tapp

The earned settlement model is currently subject to a public consultation, running until 12 February 2026. Details of the earned settlement scheme will be finalised following that consultation. The final model will also be subject to an economic impact assessment, which we have committed to publish in due course.

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