To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the outcome of her Department’s consultation in 2004 on proposals to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility to free NHS primary medical services. (79296)

The Department’s public consultation on proposals to exclude overseas visitors from eligibility to free national health service primary medical services concluded on 13 August 2004. The response to the consultation has raised some complex issues, which we have been working across Government to resolve.