Dental Services and Prescriptions: Fines
(asked on 15th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much revenue has been generated by issuing penalty charge notices for people not in receipt of the qualifying benefit to receive free prescriptions and dental treatment.
Information provided by the NHS Business Services Authority on income from penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued in England, in respect to prescriptions and dental treatment, in each calendar year since 2014, is provided in the following table:
Calendar Year | Dental PCN Income (£) | Prescription PCN Income (£) | Total PCN Income (£) |
2014 | 9,326,330.28 | 525,666 | 9,851,996.71 |
2015 | 9,009,223.12 | 7,312,277 | 16,321,500.27 |
2016 | 15,542,912.60 | 13,835,118 | 29,378,031.02 |
2017 | 17,086,583.83 | 18,252,198 | 35,338,782.18 |
2018 | 13,840,674.71 | 23,839,078 | 37,679,753.08 |
Total 2014-18 | 64,805,724.54 | 63,764,338.72 | 128,570,063.26 |
Notes:
- NHS Business Services Authority assumed responsibility for the Prescription Exemption Checking Service on 17 September 2014, accordingly no data is held prior to this.
- Cleansing of PCN data is responsible for minor variation from previously published figures.