Question follow-through · 903949
Pharmacy: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide sustainable funding for rural pharmacies.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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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
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide sustainable funding for rural pharmacies.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
We have increased the core funding for community pharmacy to £3.1billon pounds in 2025/26 and increased the commissioning of additional services like Pharmacy First. We have maintained the Pharmacy Access scheme that provides £19m to support pharmacies i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Health Services: Rural Areas
19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide mobile health services to support rural agricultural communities where (a) committing and (b) travelling to appointments at set times can be a challenge.
General Practitioners: Access
19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage GP practices to provide walk-in appointments for (a) farmers and (b) other occupations where attending at a set time can be a challenge.
NHS: Negligence
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the use of the current mediation scheme for medical negligence disputes.
Smoking: Health Services
2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of integrating smoking cessation services into (a) A&E, (b) mental health services and (c) lung screening.
Cancer: Diagnosis
2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase screening programmes to improve early diagnosis of cancers, in the context of the forthcoming National Cancer Plan.
Cancer: Research
2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of research funding models, in the context of the forthcoming national cancer plan; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of rese
Smoking: Health Services
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 64433 on Smoking: Health Services, if he will take steps to use (a) A&E, (b) lung screening and (c) other new NHS services to automatically enrol
Smoking: Health Services
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan for England, published on 30 July 2025, whether the proposal to provide opt-out smoking cessation interventions i
Mental Health Services
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that NHS mental health trusts do not discharge patients with high PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores without robust safety planning and fol
Mental Health Services: Standards
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms are in place for NHS mental health trusts to be held accountable when written recommendations for improving carer involvement and crisis support following formal apologies are not i
Suicide: Men
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce male suicide rates through access to timely mental health care, follow-up after (a) self-harm and (b) crisis presentations and support for men at high-risk du
Breast Cancer: Screening
6 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the current age limits for routine breast cancer screening; and whether he plans to review these limits to improve early detection for patients outside of