Question follow-through · 78035
Health Services: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle health tourism.
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
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle health tourism.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
In relation to United Kingdom nationals travelling abroad for treatment, the Department has recently updated guidance that advises anyone considering a procedure abroad to carefully research the treatment in question, the qualifications of their clinician...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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