Question follow-through · 40028
Cannabis: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of patients prescribed medicinal cannabis by (a) the NHS and (b) private clinics in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of patients prescribed medicinal cannabis by (a) the NHS and (b) private clinics in the last 12 months.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is only able to provide information on prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines that have been prescribed and submitted to the NHSBSA. Data on National Health Service prescriptions for unlicensed cannabis-bas...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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