Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate health and social care provision for Hongkongers coming to the UK under the BN(O) visa and other routes.

Hongkongers coming to the United Kingdom under the BN(O) visa will be entitled to access NHS services where they chose to settle following payment of the Immigration Health Surcharge. Payers of the surcharge are entitled, whilst their visa is valid, to National Health Service care without charge on the same basis as a person ordinarily resident in the UK. They can also register with a general practitioner as an NHS patient free of charge.