Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 23 October 2020 to Question 99764 on General Practitioners: Fees and Charges, if he will list the letters issued to patients by GPs that are listed as exempt from fees by the General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Regulations.

The circumstances in which general practices must not charge for issuing medical certificates confirming an individual’s health condition are set out in Schedule 2 of the National Health Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 and Schedule 1 of the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015. The inclusion of a medical certificate in this Schedule is subject to consultation with the British Medical Association’s general practitioners committee.