Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 30 April 2019 to Question 246493 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, whether the review document shared with Deighton Pierce Glynn setting out the findings of his Department’s December 2017 review of the functioning of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 was shared with any other party during the 2018 judicial review of that policy.

The Department conducted a review into the impact of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, with particular regard to any impact on vulnerable groups and those with protected characteristics.

The Department did not produce or publish a formal Review outcomes document. The advice that ministers received regarding the findings of the review, and the recommended next steps, was provided to the High Court, Deighton Pierce Glynn and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission in the summer of 2018 as part of judicial review proceedings.