Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Global Health Insurance Card applications (a) are in progress, (b) are awaiting processing and (c) have been received in each month of 2021.

As of 15 November 2021, there were 176,533 Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) applications which the NHS Business Services Authority would categorise as currently ‘in progress’ and where more information is required from the applicant. As of 15 November 2021, 11,191 applications are classed by the NHS Business Services Authority as ‘awaiting processing’ where the applicant is awaiting a response.

The following table shows the total number of applications received in each month of 2021.

Note:

From June 2021, the new GHIC portal included additional residency checks aimed at preventing fraud.