Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much in fees from overseas private patients was (a) collected by and (b) remain outstanding to NHS trusts in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

The Department does not hold data on the amounts collected as fees from overseas private patients.

Since 2013-14, the Department has been collecting data on the amount invoiced by National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts, together with amounts recovered and written off for NHS treatment of overseas patients entitled to be treated as NHS patients under the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015.