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Health Services: Asylum

Asked by Lewis CockingConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 19 November 2025UIN 88401

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of providing healthcare to (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees in the last financial year.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The Department and NHS England do not hold the information requested.

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