Health Services: Asylum
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the NHS of providing healthcare to asylum seekers.
Answered by Mrs Sharon Hodgson
DHSC and NHSE do not hold the information requested. The overall management of people seeking asylum is a matter for the Home Office.
The NHS is a residency-based system; this means that people who do not live here on a lawful, settled basis must contribute to the cost of their care.
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