So I would hazard a guess and say unless you are in a position to pay private,corrective surgery is not done immediatly but around 3 months old.
Do you have a link you can post rather than me having to go looking for it?

It is not an issue about whether you can go privately or not. As I have said, some centres adopt the early lip closure practice.

link:

Wiley InterScience :: Session Cookies.

This is not an isolated article, just a very recent one. There are many other recent articles on this issue:
e.g.,
more recent:
Neonatal repair of cleft lip: a decision-making protocol
Philippe Galiniera et al. (2008).

older:
Neonatal cleft lip repair in Ayrshire; a contribution to
the debate
E. FREEDLANDER, (1990)