Simon Kirby
Conservative, Brighton, Kemptown
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether it is his intention that the NHS Commissioning Board will have responsibility for commissioning healthcare in immigration removal centres from April 2013.
Paul Burstow
The Minister of State, Department of Health
The Department will assume policy responsibility for immigration removal centre (IRC) healthcare commissioning policy from the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) from
UKBA budgetary provision and commissioning responsibility for healthcare in IRCs will be transferred to the Department during 2012-13 and, subject to legislation, these responsibilities will be fully transferred to the National Health Service Commissioning Board by April 2014.
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