Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the costs of (a) unnecessary prescribing or prescribing beyond medical guidance and (b) the consultation that accompanies that prescribing in respect of (i) antidepressants, (ii) opioids, (iii) benzodiazepines, (iv) z-drugs and (v) abapentinoids in each of the last five years.

We have no plans to do so.