PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges (9 July 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce prescription charges for those over the age of 60.

Asked by:
Charlotte Nichols (Labour)

Answer

A public consultation is underway on aligning the upper age exemption for National Health Service prescription charges in England with the state pension age. The Government will consider the responses to the consultation and outline its next steps in due course.


Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
21 July 2021

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