Question follow-through · 108536
Chronic Illnesses: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the NHS Business Services Authority on extending the duration of Medical Exemption Certificates for those with long-term conditions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the NHS Business Services Authority on extending the duration of Medical Exemption Certificates for those with long-term conditions.
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2026
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has had no such discussions.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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