Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will change the entitlement to NHS services to include people who normally reside outside the UK but have paid at least seven years' worth of national insurance contributions.

The Government has not yet taken a decision on which former United Kingdom residents should in the future be exempt from National Health Service charges when visiting the UK. We are currently undertaking further analysis and financial appraisal, as well as considering how any change to the current rules could be administered by the NHS. Any decision to amend the current rules of entitlement for visitors to the UK will be made and announced in due course.