Health Services: Immigrants

(asked on 5th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the full analysis his Department undertook that concluded that the NHS spends £470 on average per person per year on treating people required to pay the immigration health surcharge.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 12th March 2019

The Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2018 was introduced in Parliament on Thursday 11 October 2018 alongside a published impact assessment which is available at the following link:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111172995/impacts

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