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Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) children received drugs provided free of charge to the NHS for compassionate reasons in each year from 2021 to 2026.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
15 Jun 2026
Answer
22 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) children received drugs provided free of charge to the NHS for compassionate reasons in each year from 2021 to 2026.

  2. 15 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The information requested is not held centrally. Pharmaceutical companies can establish compassionate use or early access programmes through which medicines may be made available to National Health Service patients free of charge ahead of an NHS commissio...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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