Question follow-through · 39606
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing immediate cash-flow funding for pharmacies.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing immediate cash-flow funding for pharmacies.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
NHS England commissioned Frontier Economics to undertake an independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmacy funding in 2024. The findings of this work were published by Frontier Economics on 28 March 2025.We have now concluded the consul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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