Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of foreign nationals accessing NHS services in each of the last five years.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not collected in the format requested.
The Department publishes data on the income recognised from overseas visitors, who may or may not be foreign nationals, accessing the National Health Service in its annual reports and accounts, as well as the NHS consolidated provider accounts.
The information from the annual accounts is shown in the below table.
| 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Income Recognised (£m) | 87 | 91 | 93 | 61 | 67 |
The annual reports and accounts are available at the following links:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/consolidated-provider-accounts-21-22-final.pdf
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