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1190775

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money has accrued to the public purse from (a) NHS trusts, (b) organisations that provide social care (c) universities and other higher education institutions and (d) state-funded primary and secondary schools paying the Immigration Health Surcharge on behalf of their employees in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	40775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collate or publish the information requested.</p><p>Immigration Skills Charge data is broken down between large and small and charitable employers but not by sector.</p><p>Income generated by Immigration Health Surcharge payments goes directly to NHS services, helping to protect and sustain our world-class healthcare system for everyone who uses it. Income collected from the Immigration Skills charge is used to address skills gaps in the UK workforce, which will be of benefit to businesses in the long term.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 40776 question first answered 05/05/2020 15:54:01 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1193236

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to permanently exempt (a) NHS staff and (b) the families of NHS staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	43715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>We welcome the vital contribution NHS staff from across the globe make to our healthcare system.</p><p>The Government has recently announced a series of measures for key health workers on the frontline fighting coronavirus. Visas will be automatically extended for 12 months free of charge and there will be no Immigration Health Surcharge for the extension. These measures apply to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics, and we have recently expanded this offer to cover more key NHS frontline health workers, including those working in eligible occupations in the independent health and care sector. This will also apply to their family members. The automatic extension offer will be for those whose visas expire between 31 March and 1 October. We estimate around 3,000 healthcare professionals, plus their families, will benefit.</p><p>Going forward, it is right those who come to the UK contribute to the NHS whose services they can access from when they arrive. Income from the Immigration Health Surcharge goes directly back into the NHS to help provide vital and lifesaving services.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/05/2020 08:32:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1236177

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in each of the last six months how many health and care workers have (a) paid the immigration health surcharge, (b) applied for a refund for that charge and (c) been successfully refunded.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	92847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>This information is not readily available nor held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost due to the fact the IHS is payable across multiple application routes. For example, where the customer is on a visa with a general right to work and subsequently takes up employment, we do not have a record who the employer is.</p><p>Since the Prime Minister’s announcement, we have been working at pace to identify and issue refunds to those customers who are eligible and hold Tier 2 (General) visas.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/09/2020 13:21:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1226871

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of processing refunds in relation to the immigration health surcharge paid on immigration applications by (a) NHS workers and (b) health and social care staff since 21 May 2020.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	77549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not held in a reportable format and could therefore only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/09/2020 12:27:33 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1227296

registered interest
date	22/07/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has been the (a) shortest, (b) longest and (c) average time taken by her Department to process a refund of the NHS immigration health surcharge.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	78604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not held in a reportable format and could therefore only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/09/2020 12:29:36 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1380637

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress her Department has made on the reimbursement of the Immigration Health Surcharge for foreign healthcare workers in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	904283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>This government remains committed to fulfilling the PM’s commitment to exempt health and care staff from the Immigration Health Surcharge.</p><p>Thousands of our hardworking health and care workers and their dependents have already received and continue to receive the Immigration Health Surcharge refunds and reimbursements they are entitled to.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/11/2021 15:40:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1197677

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people paid the Immigration Health Surcharge in the most recent year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	49574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely publish volume data relating to Immigration Health Surcharge payers. Income data for the Immigration Health Surcharge is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>Please see page137 of the Home Office 2018-19 Annual Report and Accounts for the most recent disclosure of Immigration Health Surcharge income https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 02/06/2020 12:44:30 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1405245

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue the Immigration Health Surcharge raised in each visa category in each quarter since 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	109176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information in the format requested. Amounts received in Immigration Health Surcharge fees are not recorded or categorised by visa type.</p><p>Total Immigration Health Surcharge income data is published annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts. See page 161 of the Home Office 2020-21 Annual Report and Accounts for the most recent disclosure of Immigration Health Surcharge income.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1000127%2FHO_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2020-21_FINAL_AS_CERTIFIED__accessible_.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CFinanceFOIandPQ%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C48afcc99eaa74bca647808d9df1afee0%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637786129293288943%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=UQWTTJzjiOILO4hEte0cHcgXDfJvj6m0Sa6qOnt7ta0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a>. Reports relating to previous financial years are available at the following link <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fho-annual-reports-and-accounts&amp;data=04%7C01%7CFinanceFOIandPQ%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C48afcc99eaa74bca647808d9df1afee0%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637786129293288943%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=nUm30j2OTfzKL6fBdPiHQgBy8PwE0P3WHC5R4pHYFuI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 26/01/2022 17:16:59 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1327410

registered interest
date	24/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the number of overseas health workers who have been refunded the Immigration Health Surcharge since the Prime Minister announced that policy in May 2020.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	6486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>Since the Prime Minister’s announcement last year, the Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care have worked together continuously to ensure overseas health workers are refunded the Immigration Health Surcharge.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 27/05/2021 15:30:33 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1344108

registered interest
date	06/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to waive the Immigration Health Surcharge for holders of Hong Kong BNO visas.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	28343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce a waiver for the Immigration Health Surcharge on the British Nationals (Overseas) (BN(O)) route.</p><p>Like others coming to the UK applicants to the route should contribute to the cost of the NHS Services they will be using, rather than these costs fall to UK taxpayers more widely.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/07/2021 15:24:17 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen