Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 47392

Prescriptions: Asylum

Tabled: 23 April 2025

Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of free prescriptions provided to asylum seekers since 5 July 2024.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Department does not hold the information requested. Data is not held on the number of prescriptions dispensed in the community in England free of charge to asylum seekers.There is no automatic exemption from prescription charges for asylum seekers, ho...

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