Question follow-through · 47323
Overseas Students: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to remove the immigration health surcharge for international students.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to remove the immigration health surcharge for international students.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
It is right that international students pay the immigration health surcharge (IHS), which sees them make a financial contribution to the comprehensive range of NHS services available to them during their stay in the UK. Students are subject to the discoun...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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