Question follow-through · 4434
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to review the prescription charge medical exemption list annually.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 13 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to review the prescription charge medical exemption list annually.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Sept 2024
Answer published
There are no current plans to review the list of medical conditions that entitle someone to apply for a medical exemption certificate. Approximately 89% of prescription items are dispensed free of charge in the community in England, and there is a wide ra...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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