Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential financial and health benefits of introducing a universal compulsory social insurance model for healthcare in the United Kingdom.

The Government strongly believes in the founding principles of the National Health Service, as a publicly funded service that is universal, and free at the point of use. Through the 10-Year Health Plan, the Government is committed to seeing this model thrive in the modern age. The plan focuses on delivering what matters to patients and taxpayers by transforming the model of care, rather than the model of funding, including through three shifts of moving from hospital to community, from sickness to prevention, and from analogue to digital.

The Government has therefore not undertaken an assessment of introducing a universal compulsory social insurance model for healthcare in the United Kingdom, nor does it have any plans to move away from a tax-funded NHS.