Question follow-through · 114996
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of including inflammatory bowel disease on the list of medical conditions which are entitled to a medical exemption certificate.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2026 · 3 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 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of including inflammatory bowel disease on the list of medical conditions which are entitled to a medical exemption certificate.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2026
Answer published
There are currently no plans to add inflammatory bowel disease to the list of medical conditions that entitle someone to apply for a medical exemption certificate which exempts the holder from paying the National Health Service prescription charge.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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