NHS: Nurses - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:00 pm on 7 January 2020.

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Photo of Baroness Watkins of Tavistock Baroness Watkins of Tavistock Crossbench 3:00, 7 January 2020

My Lords, could the Minister provide an estimate of the number of people the Government expect to recruit from countries where the nurse-to-population ratio is already inadequate? If this is morally right and what we need to do, how can we ensure that some of our overseas aid budgets through DfID are used to increase nurse training in countries that we will recruit nurses from?