| Heading: |
Asthma: Medical Equipment |
| Question ID: |
1816035 |
| UIN: |
62448 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5357 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ayoub Khan
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| Asking Member handle: |
AyoubKhanMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AyoubKhanMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making all NHS-provided emergency asthma inhalers free of charge. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
There are no current plans to review the list of medical conditions that entitle someone to apply for a medical exemption certificate.Approximately 89% of prescription items are dispensed free of charge in the community in England, and there are a wide ra... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |