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Conservative MP Mark Harper backs Government plans to impose a legal duty on hospitals in England to charge overseas patients up front if they are not eligible for free care on the NHS. He told the Westminster Hour that he didn't think it was "unreasonable" to ask people to pay for it in advance. "I can’t go to any other country in the world and rock up and get elective care and not have someone pay for it," he said. "Other people come to our country and think it’s extraordinary that we don’t do this.”