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date	19/07/2021
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	Veterans: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending free prescriptions to veterans other than holders of a Valid War Pension Exemption Certificate in cases where the prescription is for an accepted disability.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	35702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2021 answer text <p>Exemptions from National Health Service prescriptions charges for veterans have been extended beyond valid war pension exemption certificate holders to Armed Forces Compensation Scheme recipients. If the prescription is not for their accepted disablement there would be a charge if they were under 60 years old, unless there was another exemption in place. No assessment has been made of the effect of the cost of prescriptions on veterans’ mental health.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 35703 question first answered 28/07/2021 14:56:21 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

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date	26/04/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much UK public money has been used to purchase steel from loss-making state-owned Chinese steel making companies (a) through the Crown Commercial Service and (b) in total in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	35702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Commercial Service has not awarded any contracts for the procurement of steel.</p><p>Information on departmental spend on steel is not held centrally.</p><p>All departments are now required to implement new guidelines, which we published on 30 October last year, on how government buyers should source steel for major projects so that the true value of UK steel is taken into account in major procurement decisions.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/05/2016 09:45:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell