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<p>The Immigration Health Surcharge was introduced in April 2015. Income received
from Immigration Health Surcharge payments since then is reported annually in the
Home Office Annual Report and Accounts. However, the report shows the total amount
of Immigration Health income raised in any given financial year, including the amount
transferred at the year end to the Consolidated Fund for Extra Receipts. It does not
show how much money was spent by the Home Office on collection costs, or how much
was transferred to Department of Health and the Devolved Administrations for spending
on the NHS; it just shows the sum of these two items. Therefore, to report the amount
of Immigration Health Surcharge income “raised for the NHS” would equate to putting
new information in the public domain</p><p>The Home Office collects this fee on behalf
of the Department of Health and after deducting its administration/collection costs,
it transfers the balance through the Main and Supplementary Estimate exercises using
the Barnett Formula. Any surplus of income received over and above the allocations
made in the Main and Supplementary Estimate exercises is transferred to the Consolidated
Fund for Extra Receipts at the end of the year and made available by HM Treasury to
Dept Health and the Devolved Administrations for spending on the NHS in the following
financial year. <br>In the last Immigration Health Surcharge Order debated in Parliament
£140.1m was made available for the NHS in FY15/16. Figure for FY16/17 is not readily
available</p><p>FY2016/17 - page 117: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627853/ho_annual_report_and_accounts_2016_2017.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627853/ho_annual_report_and_accounts_2016_2017.pdf</a><br>FY2015/16
- page 134 & 135: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf</a></p>
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