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 number of UK issued prescriptions which are dispensed in EU countries in the most recent period for which figures are available.
No such estimate has been made. Data on prescriptions issued in the United Kingdom and dispensed in other European Union countries is not collected centrally.
Information held by the NHS Business Services Authority relates to prescription items dispensed in the community in England only.