Question follow-through · 36810
Pharmacy: Opening Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of hours pharmacies were open in (a) 2015 and (b) 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of hours pharmacies were open in (a) 2015 and (b) 2024.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold opening hours data for pharmacies in 2015. Data for opening hours from 2022 is available at the following link:https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/consolidated-pharmaceutical-list
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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