Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 182527

Prescriptions: Older People

Tabled: 25 April 2023
Answered: 2 May 2023
Named Day

Question

Dame Diana Johnson

LabourKingston upon Hull North and Cottingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to its consultation on Aligning the upper age for NHS prescription charge exemptions with the State Pension age consultation, which closed in September 2021.

Answer

Neil O'Brien
The Government will respond to its consultation on aligning the upper age for National Health Service prescription charge exemptions with the state pension age in due course.