Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure that women prescribed hormone replacement therapy comprising of oestrogen and progesterone that are combined together are only required to pay one prescription charge.

Unless a valid exemption has been declared, the statutory applicable charge of £8.80 is payable for each prescription item, such as a quantity of a drug, dispensed in the community in England. The Government has no plans to change this position in respect of combination packs of hormone replacement therapy medication comprised of multiple drugs.