Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the uptake of private health insurance over the last five years.

HM Treasury has not made an assessment of the uptake of private health insurance over the last five years.

However, the Financial Conduct Authority’s Financial Lives 2024 survey, published in May 2025, estimated that in 2024, one in seven adults (14%) held private medical insurance, a 1 percentage point increase since 2022.