Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 45288 and with reference to the Government's announcement on the Immigration Health Surcharge, whether people working in health and social care who have already paid that surcharge will be refunded on backdated basis.
The Prime Minister has asked the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to work together to exempt overseas NHS and care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Home Office and Department of Health and Social Care officials are currently working on how to implement this and further details will be announced in due course.