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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 244W, on prescriptions: fees and charges, what the cost of administering the exemption arrangements for prescription charges was in each of the last 10 years.
The following table provides an estimate of direct and overhead costs for the administration of prescription pre-payment, maternity exemption and medical exemption certificates for the latest eight financial years in England. These costs are the only elements of the prescription charging system that can be separately identified for England. Information prior to 2006-07 is not retained by the NHS Business Services Authority.
NHS prescription charge administrative process from 2006-07 to 2013-14 (£000s) | ||||||||
2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | |
Pre-payment | 3,318 | 3,807 | 3,889 | 4,586 | 4,480 | 4,941 | 4,988 | 5,366 |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority costing model