Health Services: Overseas Visitors
Health
Written answers and statements, 5 February 2008
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS charged non-EU patients who were not permitted free health care in each year since the inception of charging; and what sums are outstanding.
Dawn Primarolo (Minister of State (Public Health), Department of Health; Bristol South, Labour)
It is not possible to provide the information requested. Successive Governments have not required the national health service to provide statistics on the number of foreign nationals seen, treated or charged under the provisions of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989, as amended, nor any costs involved.