Health Services: Migrants

(asked on 7th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much has been raised from the Immigration Health Surcharge has been received by (1) the NHS, and (2) by non-NHS bodies, in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 13th February 2024

Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) income data is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts. The income generated by the Home Office is distributed to the devolved health administrations for the purposes of health spending, under the Barnett Formula.

Please note that the IHS figure is made up of both Retained Income and Consolidated Funds. The IHS amounts for the financial years from 2015 to 2022 inclusive are as follows:

- £169,112,000 in 2015/16;

- £210,250,000 in 2016/17;

- £240,483,000 in 2017/18;

- £297,927,000 in 2018/19;

- £597,677,000 in 2019/20;

- £480,822,000 in 2020/21;

- £1,423,284,000 in 2021/22; and

- £1,706,112,000 in 2022/23.

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