Health Services: Asylum
(asked on 26th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the NHS of providing healthcare to asylum seekers.
This question was answered on 14th April 2026
DHSC and NHSE do not hold the information requested. The overall management of people seeking asylum is a matter for the Home Office.
The NHS is a residency-based system; this means that people who do not live here on a lawful, settled basis must contribute to the cost of their care.