Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 10 May (HL7348), whether some oral contraceptive pills are more expensive for GPs to prescribe than others.

General practitioners can prescribe any oral contraceptive pill, according to clinical need. The costs are paid for by clinical commissioning groups. Some oral contraceptives pills cost more than others for the National Health Service. The latest reimbursement price for each oral contraceptive pill held by the NHS Business Services Authority as at 1 May 2018 is provided in the attached table due to the size of the data.

For most of the products listed the pack size covers three months. The difference in pack sizes means that different prices are not necessarily directly comparable. Reimbursement prices are the amounts paid to community pharmacies for dispensed products against an NHS prescription.