Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) irregular migrants and (b) asylum seekers attended how many NHS therapy sessions in the most recent year for which information is available; and what the cost to the public purse was of (i) those sessions and (ii) interpreters at those sessions.

While NHS England does hold some data on this, the information is not considered robust enough to be published, given that only a small number of providers have recorded data in a format that allows asylum seekers and refugees to be separately identified. It is not possible to identify irregular migrants within this information. Neither would it be possible to provide information on the actual cost of these therapy sessions, as this information is not held at this level of granularity.