Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) what is their policy on the negotiation of reciprocal healthcare agreements with (a) the European Union and (b) each member country of the European Union, and (2) what progress has been made in each case.

The United Kingdom Government is currently negotiating with the European Union Commission on future reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the European Union as part of the negotiating group on ‘mobility and social security coordination’. Negotiating rounds have been constructive. The Government published The Future Relationship with the EU: The UK’s Approach to Negotiations in February 2020 and the draft legal text of a social security agreement, including reciprocal healthcare, in May 2020. A copy is attached.