Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the total amount of uncollected fees related to the use of the NHS by foreign nationals; and if he will make a statement.
The Department does not have an overall estimate of uncollected fees relating to the use of the National Health Service by foreign nationals. NHS trust and NHS foundation trust annual accounts provide information on provisions and debt that has been written off, however this does not give the total debt picture because some of these amounts will be paid in subsequent years.