Question follow-through · 47511
Pharmacy: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent community pharmacy closures in (a) rural and (b) deprived areas.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- 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
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent community pharmacy closures in (a) rural and (b) deprived areas.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
Pharmacies play a vital role in our healthcare system, and the Government recognises the integral role they play within our communities, as an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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