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UIN 90832

NHS: Fines

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13 November 2025

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5 December 2025 · Answer

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5 December 2025

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of issuing penalty charge notices as a deterrent against improper claims of free NHS prescriptions.

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  1. 13 November 2025

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of issuing penalty charge notices as a deterrent against improper claims of free NHS prescriptions.

    Source: Commons

  2. 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...

    Source: Written answer

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