Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 128035, on Prescription Drugs, how many unique (a) male and (b) female patients were prescribed antidepressants in each of the last full two years for which data is available.
The information is not held in the requested format. Data relating to the clinical indication a prescription is intended for is not captured; some items dispensed can be used for a variety of clinical indications.