Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cannabis prescriptions have been issued to treat severe treatment-resistant epilepsy for each year since November 2018.
This information is not held in the format requested. The NHS Business Services Authority holds data relating to drugs prescribed in the National Health Service in England and dispensed within a community setting. However, this does not record the condition for which a prescription is intended.
While details on private prescriptions for controlled drugs, including cannabis-based products for medicinal use, are also submitted to the NHS Business Services Authority, information on the condition for which a prescription has been issued is not held centrally.