Question follow-through · 92932
Medical Treatments: Overseas Visitors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total amount of income written off by NHS Trusts as unrecoverable charges owed by overseas visitors in each of the past three years.
About this written question
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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
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total amount of income written off by NHS Trusts as unrecoverable charges owed by overseas visitors in each of the past three years.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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