Does my hon. Friend recognise that social care workers and NHS porters and cleaners—those who do some of the most important jobs on the covid frontline—have not been included in the free visa extension and, as a result, are also being pressured to pay the immigration surcharge? Does she agree that the free visa extension ought to be extended to cover the lowest paid staff in the NHS and social care?
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Proceeding contribution from
Yvette Cooper
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 30 June 2020.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill.
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