Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an estimate of the number of individuals in (a) Slough and (b) England that have been required to repay the value of a prescription as a result of them not having a valid maternity exemption certificate in each of the last five years.

The following table shows the number of people in Slough and England that have been required to repay the value of a prescription because of them not having a valid maternity exemption certificate in each of the last five years:

Source: NHS Business Services Authority

Notes:

1. No Penalty Charge Notices were issued in 2021 because of a significant reduction in the service due to COVID-19.
2. The data for Slough was obtained via postcode search.