United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 90830
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
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13 November 2025
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5 December 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS penalty charges for incorrectly claimed free prescriptions have been issued to individuals who qualified for but did not hold NHS medical exemption certificates in the last 12 months.
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13 November 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS penalty charges for incorrectly claimed free prescriptions have been issued to individuals who qualified for but did not hold NHS medical exemption certificates in the last 12 months.
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5 December 2025
Answer
From November 2024 to October 2025, the NHS Business Service Authority issued 47,058 penalty charge notices (PCNs) to people who claimed a medical exemption but were found to have no exemption in place when checked. Of these, 21,328 were eased, for variou...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-13/90830
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1852186
- uk · wq-1852186 · source updated 5 December 2025