Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

(asked on 19th October 2018) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 29th October 2018

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.

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