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Prescriptions: Universal Credit

Answer

The number of prescription and dental penalty charge notices issued prior to universal credit (UC) rollout in Dudley by calendar year is provided in the following table:

Prior to the rollout of UC in Dudley by calendar year	Prescription penalty charge notice issued	Dental penalty charge notice issued
2012	Not held	51
2013	Not held	720
2014	1,018	2,570
2015	4,340	2,937
2016	7,914	4,190
2017 - until June	1,939 until June	2,234 until June

The number of prescription and dental penalty charge notices issued since the rollout of UC in Dudley by calendar year is provided in the following table:

After the rollout of UC in Dudley by calendar year	Prescription penalty charge notice issued	Dental penalty charge notice issued
2017 – from July	6,653 * from July	2,517 * from July
2018	4,467	4,667

Notes:

- The following postcodes were used to collate data for the Dudley area: B62, B63, B64, B65, DY1, DY2, DY3, DY4, DY5, DY6, DY7, DY8, DY9, WV1, WV4

- UC commenced roll out in the Dudley area from July 2017 so this date has been used in the data collation. The data represents Penalty Charge Notices sent out against all exemption types ticked by the patient where an exemption could not be verified.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

234108

Session

2017-19

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Fixed penalties Prescriptions Dudley Universal credit

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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