Question follow-through · 23106
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will undertake a review of the prescription charge exemption list to include more (a) chronic and (b) lifelong conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will undertake a review of the prescription charge exemption list to include more (a) chronic and (b) lifelong conditions.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
There are no current plans to review the list of prescription charge exemptions, or the list of medical conditions that entitle someone to apply for a medical exemption certificate.There are extensive arrangements in place in England to ensure that prescr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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