§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 16 October 2002,Official Report, column 869W, on ethical foreign nurse recruitment, if he will estimate the number of nursing agencies in the UK that recruit nurses from overseas. [78528]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 31 October 2002]: The Department does not collect statistics on the number of nursing agencies in the United Kingdom recruiting from overseas. The information contained in the code of practice website is monitored and updated routinely.