FOI_7602

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7602

Date Request Received: 07/12/2023 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 27/12/2023 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Refused Asylum seekers

Request Category: Media


Question Number 1: I wish to request the following information under the FOI Act that Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust holds. - If possible, can you also provide historic information and break each data set down per year from 2010/11 to present. - Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust must hold some of this information and must pass this information onto the Home Office because there was a judicial review this summer about a case in which a women was detained for an NHS debt at the airport on her arrival into the UK (https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2023/1272.html). - If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary How many refused asylum seekers hold NHS debt in your trust?

Answer To Question 1: This information is not held in a reportable format. To extract this information would require the manual searching of multiple individual records. The Trust believes that to either comply with the request in its entirety or; - confirm or deny whether the requested information is held, leading to in excess of the timescale being considerably greater than the time limit. Please see exemption notice attached.

Question Number 2: How many female refused asylum seekers hold NHS debt in your trust?

Answer To Question 2: See response to 1 above

Question Number 3: How many female refused asylum seekers hold NHS debt due to accessing maternity care on the NHS in your trust?

Answer To Question 3: See response to 1 above

Question Number 4: What is the total amount of NHS debt refused asylum seekers hold in GBP in your trust?

Answer To Question 4: See response to 1 above

Question Number 5: What is the total amount of NHS debt female refused asylum seekers hold in GBP in your trust?

Answer To Question 5: See response to 1 above

Question Number 6: What is the total amount of NHS debt female refused asylum seekers hold due to accessing maternity care on the NHS in GBP in your trust?

Answer To Question 6: See response to 1 above

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