Question follow-through · 75592
NHS: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to seek payment from foreign nationals for NHS treatment.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to seek payment from foreign nationals for NHS treatment.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2025
Answer published
In England, the National Health Service is a residency-based system. Only people who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or otherwise exempt from charges under the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015, are eligible for NHS healthc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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NHS: Mental Health
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the (a) health and (b) wellbeing of the NHS workforce.
NHS: Negligence
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made in addressing increasing clinical negligence costs.
Dentistry: Regulation
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to update dental professional healthcare regulation.
Health: Disadvantaged
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle health inequalities through the implementation of the 10 Year Health Plan.
Cancer
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to build (a) robust and (b) sustainable partnerships with (i) cancer charities, (ii) community organisations and (iii) people with lived experience of cancer.
Maternity Services: Negligence
15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to remove parental (a) income and (b) education levels as factors in cases of maternity clinical negligence.
Rare Diseases: Drugs
15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the (a) pricing and (b) reimbursement system for multi-indication medicines does not disadvantage patients with (i) rare and (ii) ultra-rare conditions.
Rare Diseases: Drugs
15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the requirement in the NHS England Commercial Framework for New Medicines for medicines to provide value at-or-below NICE’s cost-effectiveness
Rare Diseases: Drugs
15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of NHS England providing formal agreements in principle to pharmaceutical companies that commercial flexibility may be granted for
General Practitioners: Finance
15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to extend funding for advice and guidance services for GPs to other parts of primary care.
Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Misuse
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the proportion of ambulance call-outs that were related to (a) drug and (b) alcohol use in each of the last five years.
Hearing Impairment: Children and Young People
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people aged under 21 who have been diagnosed as legally deaf in the last 12 months.