PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(29 August 2025)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, how many of the people who received one of the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices issued for incorrectly claiming medical exemption from NHS prescription charges were previously in possession of an exemption certificate and remained eligible for an exemption certificate.
Asked by:
Sarah Bool (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sarah Bool (Conservative)
Answer
The information is not held in the format requested, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through manual matching of data from multiple unlinked data sources.
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