Asked by: Afzal Khan (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many health and care organisations in (a) Manchester Gorton constituency and (b) England have paid the Immigration Health Surcharge on behalf of overseas (i) nurses and (ii) doctors in each year since 2016.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office has no published data to provide an answer to this question.
Asked by: Afzal Khan (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish the evidence and cost modelling behind the planned increase of the Immigration Health Surcharge to £634 per adult and £470 per child; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kevin Foster
An Impact Assessment was completed to support the Immigration Health Surcharge Order, increasing the surcharge to £624 per adult and to £470 for children, students and those on the Youth Mobility scheme. It is published here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2020/30/pdfs/ukia_20200030_en.pdf
This Impact Assessment sets out the direct impacts including the expected increase in surcharge revenue for HMG as well as any wider economic impacts of the policy.
Asked by: Afzal Khan (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will conduct an equality impact assessment of the Immigration Health Surcharge on internationally educated health and care workers; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Kevin Foster
An Impact Assessment was completed to support the Immigration Health Surcharge Order, increasing the surcharge to £624 per adult and to £470 for children, students and those on the Youth Mobility scheme. It is published here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2020/30/pdfs/ukia_20200030_en.pdf
This Impact Assessment sets out the direct impacts including the expected increase in surcharge revenue for HMG as well as any wider economic impacts of the policy.
Asked by: Claire Hanna (Social Democratic & Labour Party - Belfast South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the NHS surcharge for all migrant workers.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The overall purpose of the Surcharge is to benefit the NHS, help to care for the sick and save lives.
NHS and wider health and social care workers from abroad make a fantastic contribution. However, it is fair to expect people arriving in the UK to work in non-healthcare roles to make a contribution to the brilliant NHS services to which they can access.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the amount of revenue that will accrue to the public purse from the Immigration Health Surcharge in each of the years to the end of the current forecast period.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office does not routinely publish data relating to financial forecasts. Income data for the Immigration Health Surcharge is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts.
Please see page 137 of the Home Office 2018-19 Annual Report and Accounts for the most recent disclosure of Immigration Health Surcharge income
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807126/6.5571_HO_Annual_Report_201920_WEB.PDF
Asked by: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the net financial benefit to the NHS from the immigration health surcharge in each year since the surcharge was introduced; and what proportion of total annual income from the immigration health surcharge comes from foreign nationals working in the health and care sector.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office does not collate or publish the breakdown of Immigration Health Surcharge income collected from foreign nationals working in the health and social care sector.
Income data for the Immigration Health Surcharge is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts.
Please see page137 of the Home Office 2018-19 Annual Report and Accounts for the most recent disclosure of Immigration Health Surcharge income:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807126/6.5571_HO_Annual_Report_201920_WEB.PDF
Asked by: Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Wood Green)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the waiver of the Immigration Heath Surcharge for NHS and care workers announced by the Government on 21 May 2020 will also apply to the families of those workers.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Department of Health and Social Care and Home Office officials are working to implement the Prime Minister’s announcement of 21 May and further details will be published shortly.
Asked by: Alison Thewliss (Scottish National Party - Glasgow Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 45288 and with reference to the Government's announcement on the Immigration Health Surcharge, whether people working in health and social care who have already paid that surcharge will be refunded on backdated basis.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Prime Minister has asked the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to work together to exempt overseas NHS and care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Home Office and Department of Health and Social Care officials are currently working on how to implement this and further details will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Brendan O'Hara (Scottish National Party - Argyll and Bute)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Immigration Health Surcharge exemption will extend to international volunteers from other countries working in (a) Camphill communities and (b) other health and social care settings under the Tier 5 arrangements.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Prime Minister has asked the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to work together to exempt overseas NHS and care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care officials are currently working on how to implement this and further details will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Brendan O'Hara (Scottish National Party - Argyll and Bute)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Immigration Health Surcharge exemption will extend to people from other countries who are (a) applying and (b) plan to apply for visas under the Tier 5 arrangements to work as volunteers in (i) Camphill communities and (ii) other health and social care settings.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Prime Minister has asked the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to work together to exempt overseas NHS and care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care officials are currently working on how to implement this and further details will be announced in due course.