Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of excluding EEA and Swiss citizens from the immigration health surcharge to (a) the UK, (b) England and (c) in Barnett consequentials for the devolved Administrations.

Analysis on the impact of the ending of free movement in the UK on EEA and Swiss citizens is currently underway and will be published at a later date. This will include analysis of the impact of the Immigration Health Surcharge.

Income generated by Immigration Health Surcharge payments go directly to NHS services, helping to protect and sustain our world-class healthcare system for everyone who uses it.

An Impact Assessment for the planned increase to the Surcharge was published alongside the statutory instrument. It can be found at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2020/30/pdfs/ukia_20200030_en.pdf