FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00787
- Request Date
- February 1, 2016
- Subject
- Tier 2 Visas
- Description
- The number of nurses (qualified and unqualified) and healthcare assistants currently directly employed by the Trust (including zero hours and casual staff) who are on Tier 2 visas under the Points Based Immigration system.
- Of the staff referred to in response to question 1, how many started working in the UK after April 2011?
- Of the staff referred to in response to question 2, how many are paid below £35,000 per year (including zero hours and casual staff)? “Pay” here means full-year gross pay including enhancements (e.g. shift pay, overtime pay) for the year 2014/15 (or if hired since the start of 2014/15, please use forecast full-year gross pay including enhancements for 2015/16 based on payments during the year to date). Please note that I am seeking actual pay – if a staff member is paid £19,000 per year for working 0.5 FTE (assuming no enhancements), please consider their pay to be £19,000, not the £38,000 they would be paid were they working 1.0 FTE. Please separate the question 3 data between nurses and healthcare assistants (unless this would breach the Data Protection Act, in which case please provide a combined total).
If the information for question 2 is not held (or would be impossible to locate within the section 12 cost limit), please ignore questions 2 and 3 and answer questions 4 and 5 instead:
- Of the staff referred to in response to question 1, how many started working for the Trust (preferably including any predecessor Trusts, if the Trust is the product of a merger) after April 2011?
- Of the staff referred to in response to question 4, how many are paid below £35,000 per year (including zero hours and casual staff)? “Pay” here means full-year gross pay including enhancements (e.g. shift pay, overtime pay) for the year 2014/15 (or if hired since the start of 2014/15, please use forecast full-year gross pay including enhancements for 2015/16 based on payments during the year to date). Please note that I am seeking actual pay – if a staff member is paid £19,000 per year for working 0.5 FTE, please consider their pay to be £19,000, not the £38,000 they would be paid were they working 1.0 FTE. Please separate the question 5 data between nurses and healthcare assistants (unless this would breach the Data Protection Act, in which case please provide a combined total).
- Response
1) 9 nurses, 0 HCAs
2) Not applicable.
3) Not applicable.
4) All of them
5) All of them
6) Not applicable.
7) Not applicable.
8) Not applicable.
9) All were employed prior to the increase in earnings threshold and given this no impact report has been produced to date