PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Immigration: Patients (6 October 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirements she has placed on the NHS to report on patients' immigration status.
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
The Home Office has not placed any requirements on the NHS to report on patients’ immigration status.
As specified in the Immigration Rules, the Home Office may refuse an immigration application where the applicant has failed to pay an NHS debt of £500 or more in accordance with the relevant NHS regulations on charges to overseas visitors. The Department of Health has put in place arrangements through which the NHS notifies the Home Office of these debts.
Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
18 October 2017
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