Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many penalty charge notices issued by the NHS Business Authority have been overturned due to wrongly identified benefits on prescription forms in each year since 2010.

The following table provides the number of penalty charge notices overturned because the person was confirmed to be receiving a qualifying benefit when their prescription form was checked against Department for Work and Pensions benefit data.

Note:

Date range: the data is only available from October 2017.