Overseas Students: Health Services

(asked on 23rd April 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to remove the immigration health surcharge for international students.


Answered by
Janet Daby Portrait
Janet Daby
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 1st May 2025

It is right that international students pay the immigration health surcharge (IHS), which sees them make a financial contribution to the comprehensive range of NHS services available to them during their stay in the UK. Students are subject to the discounted rate of £776 per person, per year.

This government currently has no plans to remove the IHS for international students. We have, however, made clear that our overall approach is to welcome international students who enrich our university campuses, forge lifelong friendships with our domestic students and become global ambassadors for the UK.

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