Petition · past parliament
Tax Payers demand the Foreign Aid Budget be cut to cover unpaid NHS bills.
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
Health tourism throughout the UK is a huge strain on our NHS. We are beginning to see in the media how people from countries across the world are abusing this system & not paying for treatment they've received.The Taxpayers in the UK are forced to pay for this. NHS is National NOT International.
We are demanding that the Government claws back this money from the Foreign Aid Budget. The amounts given to certain countries should be reduced by how much their citizens have used through our NHS & not re-payed back into our system. The NHS is in dire need of cash, we need this money to be paid back. To expect the hard working people of the UK to foot the bill of someone having 4 children through IVF & then just fly home to their mother country is just not fair. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4176406/Meet-Nigerian-cost-500-000-IVF-triplets.html
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 2 Feb 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 6 Feb 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
6 Feb 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.