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Medical Treatments: Overseas Visitors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of overseas visitors who received NHS treatment free of charge in the last five years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
24 Nov 2025
Answer
16 Dec 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of overseas visitors who received NHS treatment free of charge in the last five years.

  2. 24 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Department does not hold the data requested on the number of overseas visitors who receive free National Health Service treatment.The Department and NHS England annually publish data on the income identified, recovered and written off from chargeable ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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