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Freedom of Information request 325-2023

Response published: 4 January 2024

FOI Request

I wish to request the following information under the FOI Act that Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust holds. 1. How many refused asylum seekers hold NHS debt in your trust? 2. How many female refused asylum seekers hold NHS debt in your trust? 3. How many female refused asylum seekers hold NHS debt due to accessing maternity care on the NHS in your trust? 4. What is the total amount of NHS debt refused asylum seekers hold in GBP in your trust? 5. What is the total amount of NHS debt female refused asylum seekers hold in GBP in your trust? 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? If possible, can you also provide historic information and break each data set down per year from 2010/11 to present. Gloucestershire Health and Care 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 this request is unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. 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. If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be treated as confidential if such an agreement has not been signed. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request. I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing today that you have received this request.

FOI Response

Thank you for your FOI request.

The information requested is not available within the Trust.