Question follow-through · 47414

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of additional costs incurred during eye tests on low income households attending opticians.

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: 7 May 2025 · 14 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

23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of additional costs incurred during eye tests on low income households attending opticians.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Free National Health Service sight tests are available to individuals on income-related benefits, and help is also available through the NHS low income scheme. An ophthalmic practitioner is required to undertake any clinically necessary tests to determine...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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