To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Crawley on 19 January (WA 254–6), whether the figures provided on the number of citizens of each other European Union state resident in the United Kingdom will be used to calculate the annual healthcare costs charged by the United Kingdom to other European Union countries. [HL1530]

Average costs under European Union regulations 1408/71 and 574/72 are calculated using the population of the United Kingdom and domestic healthcare expenditure. As the National Health Service is a residency based healthcare system, the population used in these calculations includes all those ordinarily resident in the UK, irrespective of their nationality.