Question follow-through · 88173
Health Services: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the price of the NHS Health surcharge for visa applications.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the price of the NHS Health surcharge for visa applications.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) is paid as a part of a migrant’s visa application. This was last increased in February 2024, to £1,035 per year. The level of the IHS is continually under internal review, to ensure it best reflects the predicted ave...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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