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hansard heading	Prescriptions: Disability and Older People

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1605437

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date

20/03/2023

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Department of Health and Social Care

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Health and Social Care

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Prescriptions: Disability and Older People

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to charge (a) the elderly and (b) people with disabilities for NHS prescriptions.

tabling member constituency

Birmingham, Selly Oak

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Steve McCabe

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169182

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is ministerial correction

date of answer

30/03/2023

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<p>We have no current plans to amend the arrangements by which people with qualifying medical conditions are entitled to free prescriptions. We will announce the Government’s response to the consultation on the upper age for National Health Service prescription charge exemptions and the State Pension age in due course. Approximately 89% of prescriptions are currently dispensed free of charge.</p>

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Colchester

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Will Quince

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30/03/2023 16:59:50

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4423

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64999

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Colchester

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Will Quince

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4423

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label	Biography information for Steve McCabe