Deidre Brock – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Deidre Brock on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many professionals from other EU member states in each regulated profession or holding qualifications from other EU member states related to each regulated profession were registered to work in the UK in the latest year for which figures are available.

Jesse Norman

In 2014, a total of 12,178 professionals holding qualifications from EU or European Free Trade Association member states had their qualifications recognised for the purpose of permanent establishment in the UK, and 680 professionals had their qualifications recognised for provision of services on a temporary and occasional basis in the UK. Additional detail and statistics for other years are available on the European Commission’s regulated professions database: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/regprof/.

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