Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department's risk register assesses risks to (a) the provision of health services and (b) changes in the level of the cost of providing health services which result from immigration from (i) other EEA member states and (ii) countries from outside the EEA; and if he will make a statement.

The Department’s risk management process is used to assess risk across the full range of the Department’s business including the provision of health services and the costs of providing those services.