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date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending entitlement to discounted (a) prescriptions, (b) eye tests and (c) dental treatment to (i) apprentices earning the apprentice rate of the minimum wage and (ii) all other apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	222612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has extensive arrangements in place to help people access prescriptions, eye sight tests and dental treatment. This includes a broad range of National Health Service charge exemptions for certain medical conditions and related to age or entitlement to certain social security benefits. The Department has no current plans to amend these exemptions.</p><p> </p><p>Apprentices on a low income, who do not qualify for an exemption, may be eligible for full or partial help with prescription charges, dental treatment charges and the cost of sight tests, glasses and contact lenses through application to the NHS Low Income Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>On prescription charges, to support those with greatest need who do not qualify for an exemption or the low-income scheme, prescription prepayment certificates are available. A holder of a 12-month certificate can get all the prescriptions they need for just £2 per week.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/02/2019 11:43:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

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date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of fines in relation to dental and prescription charges.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	903036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) issues penalty charge notices (PCNs) for incorrect claims for exemption from National Health Service dental and prescription charges.</p><p>To ensure the integrity of the exemption system the NHS BSA has recently increased the number of checks. In 2016/17, 365,181 PCNs for dental charges and 975,065 for prescription charges were issued. This represents an increase of 90.11% and 90.23%, respectively, on 2015/16. There is a clear process for patients to appeal a PCN if they believe it is unjustified.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/12/2017 17:09:22 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell