Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on the prescription of drugs to manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the NHS in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.

The information requested cannot be provided as information on why a drug is prescribed is not collected. This is a particular issue for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as medicines used to treat COPD are also used to treat a number of other medical conditions, for example asthma.