United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 90832
NHS: Fines
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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, 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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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
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/2025-11-13/90832
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1852188
- uk · wq-1852188 · source updated 5 December 2025