Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people using hormone replacement therapy prepayment certificates in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) each region of the UK.
It is estimated that 1,235 hormone replacement therapy prescription pre-payment certificates (HRT PPCs) were issued to patients in the Enfield North area. Between the launch of the service on 1 April 2023 and the end of 13 June 2023, there were 250,971 applications for an HRT PPC across England. The HRT PPC’s do not apply outside England.