Migrant Workers: Coronavirus

(asked on 2nd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will waive the NHS health surcharge for all migrant frontline workers during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 8th October 2020

The Government has now exempted NHS and care workers from paying the Immigration Health Surcharge, and this is not just for the duration of the pandemic.

This is in recognition of the contribution they make to the NHS. The purpose of the surcharge is to benefit the NHS and support patient care, something NHS and care workers do directly through their work. However, it is fair to expect people arriving in the UK to work in non-health related roles to contribute to the comprehensive range of NHS services available to them from when they arrive in the UK.

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