Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the contribution to the public purse of prescription prepayment certificates.
Information provided by the NHS Business Services Authority on the number of Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPC) purchased in each of the last five calendar years is provided in the following table:
Year | Number of PPCs issued |
2013 | 1,531,016 |
2014 | 1,651,977 |
2015 | 1,798,037 |
2016 | 1,916,220 |
2017 | 1,952,425 |
At present a 3-month PPC costs £29.10 and a 12-month PPC costs £104 to purchase.