Question follow-through · 101578
Health Services: Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual cost to the NHS is of providing healthcare to illegal migrants.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual cost to the NHS is of providing healthcare to illegal migrants.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England do not hold the information requested. The overall management of asylum seekers is a matter for the Home Office.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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