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Recruitment Of Healthcare Professionals From Developing Countries

EDM number 50 in 2005-06, proposed by Andrew Lansley on 17/05/2005.

That this House is concerned that recent research funded by Save the Children shows that doctors and nurses are emigrating from the developing world to fill vacancies in the NHS due to the UK's shortage of skilled health professionals; notes that UK health worker permit initial application approvals have risen in each of the last four years; further notes that figures taken from the register of the General Medical Council show that two thirds of entrants in 2004 were from overseas; believes that the international traffic in healthcare workers is contributing to the collapse of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa; is concerned that the Government's Code of Practice on ethical recruitment from developing countries has not been signed up to by all the agencies used by the NHS to recruit nurses from overseas; calls on the Government to play its full part in promoting ethical recruitment and sustainable development by banning the NHS from using recruiting agencies which have not signed up to its own Code of Practice; and believes that the Government should do more to improve recruitment and retention of nurses from the United Kingdom.

This motion has been signed by a total of 91 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Andrew Lansley17/05/2005South CambridgeshireConservativeProposed
Simon Burns17/05/2005West ChelmsfordConservativeSeconded
Crispin Blunt17/05/2005ReigateConservativeSeconded
John Baron17/05/2005BillericayConservativeSeconded
Tim Loughton17/05/2005East Worthing and ShorehamConservativeSeconded
Andrew Murrison17/05/2005WestburyConservativeSeconded
Iris Robinson18/05/2005StrangfordDUPSigned
Ann Winterton18/05/2005CongletonConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley18/05/2005Worthing WestConservativeSigned
James Gray18/05/2005North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Cheryl Gillan18/05/2005Chesham and AmershamConservativeSigned
Derek Conway18/05/2005Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Vincent Cable18/05/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Malcolm Moss18/05/2005North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Peter Luff18/05/2005Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Robert Key18/05/2005SalisburyConservativeSigned
Lynne Jones18/05/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Gerald Howarth18/05/2005AldershotConservativeSigned
Paul Holmes18/05/2005ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey18/05/2005North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Randall18/05/2005UxbridgeConservativeSigned
Michael Penning19/05/2005Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
John Whittingdale19/05/2005Maldon and East ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
David Taylor19/05/2005North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Annette Brooke19/05/2005Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen O'Brien19/05/2005EddisburyConservativeSigned
John Pugh19/05/2005SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Atkinson19/05/2005HexhamConservativeSigned
Tony Baldry23/05/2005BanburyConservativeSigned
Robert Walter23/05/2005North DorsetConservativeSigned
Desmond Swayne23/05/2005New Forest WestConservativeSigned
David Amess23/05/2005Southend WestConservativeSigned
Edward Garnier23/05/2005HarboroughConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant23/05/2005LichfieldConservativeSigned
Bill Etherington23/05/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds23/05/2005Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Peter Lilley23/05/2005Hitchin and HarpendenConservativeSigned
Bob Spink23/05/2005Castle PointConservativeSigned
Eric Pickles24/05/2005Brentwood and OngarConservativeSigned
Oliver Heald24/05/2005North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
Jacqui Lait24/05/2005BeckenhamConservativeSigned
Gregory Campbell24/05/2005East LondonderryDUPSigned
Hywel Williams24/05/2005CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Roger Williams24/05/2005Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Philip Dunne24/05/2005LudlowConservativeSigned
Eleanor Laing25/05/2005Epping ForestConservativeSigned
Elfyn Llwyd25/05/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Caroline Spelman26/05/2005MeridenConservativeSigned
Tim Yeo26/05/2005South SuffolkConservativeSigned
David Wilshire26/05/2005SpelthorneConservativeSigned
Anne McIntosh26/05/2005Vale of YorkConservativeSigned
Julie Kirkbride26/05/2005BromsgroveConservativeSigned
Charles Hendry26/05/2005WealdenConservativeSigned
David Maclean26/05/2005Penrith and The BorderConservativeSigned
Andrew Rosindell06/06/2005RomfordConservativeSigned
Julian Lewis06/06/2005New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Humfrey Malins06/06/2005WokingConservativeSigned
Mark Francois06/06/2005RayleighConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson06/06/2005UpminsterConservativeSigned
Lady Hermon07/06/2005North DownUUPSigned
Anne Main08/06/2005St AlbansConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson09/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Patrick Mercer13/06/2005NewarkConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond15/06/2005Runnymede and WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Steve Webb15/06/2005NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Mitchell16/06/2005Sutton ColdfieldConservativeSigned
Edward Davey16/06/2005Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Barrett21/06/2005Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes27/06/2005North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming30/06/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Hugo Swire30/06/2005East DevonConservativeSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Theresa May07/07/2005MaidenheadConservativeSigned
Henry Bellingham14/07/2005North West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Bill Wiggin19/07/2005LeominsterConservativeSigned
James Paice20/07/2005South East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
James Brokenshire20/07/2005HornchurchConservativeSigned
Mark Harper20/07/2005Forest of DeanConservativeSigned
John Hayes21/07/2005South Holland and The DeepingsConservativeSigned
Jeremy Wright21/07/2005Rugby and KenilworthConservativeSigned
Adam Holloway21/07/2005GraveshamConservativeSigned
John Gummer21/07/2005Suffolk CoastalConservativeSigned
Christopher Fraser21/07/2005South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Mark Durkan21/07/2005FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John Horam21/07/2005OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Andrew Selous21/07/2005South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Laurence Robertson21/07/2005TewkesburyConservativeSigned
David Jones10/10/2005Clwyd WestConservativeSigned
David Mundell18/10/2005Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and TweeddaleConservativeSigned
Julian Brazier03/11/2005CanterburyConservativeSigned
Anne Milton03/11/2005GuildfordConservativeSigned

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