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HIV Infection: Health Services

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate his Department has made of the number of foreign nationals who have come to the UK for the sole purpose of accessing free HIV treatment on the NHS in the last five years; and if he will make a statement; (222414)

(2) what information his Department gathers on the number of (a) asylum seekers, (b) those of uncertain residency status and (c) other migrants who have accessed NHS HIV testing services in the last five years.

It is not possible to provide the information requested. Successive governments have not required the national health service to provide statistics on the number of foreign nationals seen, treated or charged under the provisions of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989, as amended, nor any costs involved.