Question follow-through · 20609
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward hub and spoke dispensing legislation for pharmacies in 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward hub and spoke dispensing legislation for pharmacies in 2025.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government is working towards introducing legislation to enable hub and spoke dispensing between different legal entities in 2025. This change will be enabled via amendments to both primary and secondary legislation, and is subject to the usual parlia...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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