Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

(asked on 29th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has modelled the potential impact of a freeze to prescription charges in 2027/8 on NHS budgets.


Answered by
James Frith Portrait
James Frith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2026

All decisions on prescription charges for future years will be announced to Parliament in the normal way in due course.

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