Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30625

Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals

Tabled: 11 February 2025

Answered: 25 February 2025

Question

Steve Barclay

Conservative — North East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual cases of overseas visitors' debt have been written off by NHS Trusts in respect of maternity care in the last 12 months; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to

Answer

Karin Smyth

This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...

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