Question follow-through · 17970
Cannabis: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS prescriptions for cannabis based products there have been in each year since 2018.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS prescriptions for cannabis based products there have been in each year since 2018.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the total number of National Health Service prescriptions for licensed cannabis-based medicines, namely Nabilone, Sativex, and Epidyolex, dispensed in the community in England against an NHS prescription between January 2018 to S...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Propranolol
21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on securing an adequate supply of propranolol 80mg and 160mg modified release capsules.