Question follow-through · 57237
Health Insurance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the uptake of private health insurance over the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the uptake of private health insurance over the last five years.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
HM Treasury has not made an assessment of the uptake of private health insurance over the last five years. However, the Financial Conduct Authority’s Financial Lives 2024 survey, published in May 2025, estimated that in 2024, one in seven adults (14%) hel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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