Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on changing the qualifying age for free prescriptions in England to 66 years of age.
This question was answered on 14th February 2022
The consultation on increasing the upper age exemption for free prescriptions to align it with the state pension age closed on 3 September 2021. No decisions on the proposals have yet been made. We will respond to the consultation and announce our next steps in due course.