Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Northern Ireland citizens who hold dual nationalities under the Good Friday Agreement will be eligible for the new EHIC card from 1 January 2021.

Under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement all United Kingdom residents, including the people of Northern Ireland, will receive the new UK Global Health Insurance Card announced on 11 January 2021.

This offers equivalent protection for emergency and medically necessary healthcare needs to the European Health Insurance Card when in the European Union on a temporary stay.

This is without prejudice to the rights people may have under the Withdrawal Agreement. Citizens of Northern Ireland who live in the UK will not usually have ongoing rights under the Withdrawal Agreement, but they may have such rights if they have resided or paid contributions in the EU in the past.