Question follow-through · 87517
NHS: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of splitting charging category A patients ordinarily resident in the UK and (a) asylum seeker and (b) failed asylum seeker under section 95 of
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of splitting charging category A patients ordinarily resident in the UK and (a) asylum seeker and (b) failed asylum seeker under section 95 of
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department does not currently have any plans to reassess or revise charging categories. Introducing additional charging categories would likely be disproportionate and not aid in improving cost recovery.While the Department holds information on the in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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