Immigrants (NHS Treatment) Debate

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Immigrants (NHS Treatment)

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Points of Order
Monday 25th March 2013

(11 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I agree, and nothing we have heard this afternoon will give the British public any comfort at all that the Opposition get this problem.

Andrew Jones Portrait Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough) (Con)
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I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Does he agree that the previous Government’s failure to tackle health tourism encouraged overseas visitors to abuse our NHS?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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My hon. Friend is right. One reason why we are tackling this problem is not just the health agenda we have been discussing this afternoon, but that abuse of NHS services fuels broader immigration problems. That is one of the core reasons the previous Government failed to get a grip of net migration in particular.

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