Question follow-through · 12907
Prescriptions: Care Leavers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential feasibility of extending free prescriptions to care leavers aged 18 to 25.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential feasibility of extending free prescriptions to care leavers aged 18 to 25.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
There are no current plans to make an assessment of the feasibility of extending free prescriptions to care leavers aged 18 to 25 years old.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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