Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the NHS optical voucher scheme to cover the cost of tinted lenses for children with dyslexia.

Where an optician prescribes lenses, including tinted lenses, eligible patients receive vouchers to help with the cost of glasses. This would include children with defects of sight who also have dyslexia. Help with the cost of glasses however is only available where lenses have been prescribed to correct a defect of sight and there are no plans to change this.