Question follow-through · 90831
Chronic Illnesses: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement to obtain a medical exemption certificate before being eligible to claim free prescriptions on people with chronic
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement to obtain a medical exemption certificate before being eligible to claim free prescriptions on people with chronic
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department has made no assessment.The exemption certificate provides the patient with evidence to demonstrate to dispensers that they are entitled to have the National Health Service cover the cost of their prescriptions. The exemption certificate req...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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