Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 29 April 2026.
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to NHS trusts of providing medical treatment to individuals granted leave to remain in the UK on Article 3 ECHR medical grounds.
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held centrally, as once an individual is granted leave to remain, they are treated as any other patient that is entitled to free-care-at-the-point-of-access, and the National Health Service does not separately collect data for this cohort.
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