Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 73071

Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses,, how many enquiry letters were to individuals regarding incorrectly claiming medical exemption from NH

Answer

Karin Smyth
Between 1 June 2024 and 30 June 2025, a total of 67,777 enquiry letters were issued in relation to National Health Service prescriptions for which a medical exemption certificate had been claimed.