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Prescriptions: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many free prescriptions for medicine have been given to asylum seekers since 5 July 2024.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
25 Apr 2025
Answer
30 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many free prescriptions for medicine have been given to asylum seekers since 5 July 2024.

  2. 25 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 30 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Department does not hold the information requested. Data is not held on the number of prescriptions dispensed in the community in England free of charge to asylum seekers.There is no automatic exemption from prescription charges for asylum seekers, ho...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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