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Written question asked by Conor McGinn (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 July 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 July 2019 (named day). It was answered by Seema Kennedy (Conservative) on Monday, 22 July 2019 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


NHS Business Services Authority: Fines

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many penalty charge notices issued by the NHS Business Authority have been overturned due to wrongly identified benefits on prescription forms in each year since 2010.

Answer

The following table provides the number of penalty charge notices overturned because the person was confirmed to be receiving a qualifying benefit when their prescription form was checked against Department for Work and Pensions benefit data.

Case Start Year

Department for Work and Pensions Only

2017

25,479

2018

141,791

2019

103,455

Note:

Date range: the data is only available from October 2017.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
277778
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Fines Maladministration Prescriptions NHS Business Services Authority
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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