Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing England in line with the rest of the UK by removing prescription charges.
We have made no recent assessment. Approximately 89% of prescriptions in England are already dispensed free of charge and extensive arrangements are in place to help those most in need.
Decisions on prescription charges in the rest of the United Kingdom are a matter for the devolved administrations.