Health Services: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 19th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the annual budget of the health tourism enforcement unit for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21 and (d) 2021-22.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 1st September 2021

The annual budget for the NHS England and Improvement Overseas Visitors Improvement Team (which includes preventing Health Tourism) can be found in the table below.

Financial Year

Annual Budget

2018/19

£507,587

2019/20

£1,511,102

2020/21

£1,593,114

Source: NHS England and Improvement

The final position for 2021/22 is not yet confirmed.

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