Immigrants: Health Services
(asked on 21st May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost of exempting (1) NHS and care workers, and (2) all workers, from overseas and their families from the immigration health surcharge; and what plans they have to review their policy on that surcharge.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 4th June 2020
As announced by the Prime Minister on 21 May, the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care are working through the detail of an exemption for NHS workers and health and social care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.