Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had with the (i) Academy of Royal Colleges, (ii) Royal College of General Practitioners and (c) Royal College of Midwives on those organisations' call for the NHS overseas visitors charging regime to be suspended pending an independent review of its impact on individual and public health; and if he will make a statement.

Neither the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care nor the Ministers in the Department have had meetings with the Academy of Royal Colleges or the Royal College of General Practitioners regarding their call for the suspension of the National Health Service overseas visitors charging regime.

On 24 June 2019, the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) met with a representative of the Royal College of Midwives and others to discuss the issue of charging overseas visitors for maternity care.