Question follow-through · 54048
Pharmacy: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to engage with independent pharmacies to establish the basis for a fair and equitable contract to be offered to community pharmacy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to engage with independent pharmacies to establish the basis for a fair and equitable contract to be offered to community pharmacy.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government consults with Community Pharmacy England on arrangements for remunerating and reimbursing community pharmacy contractors. Community Pharmacy England represents all pharmacies in England including independent pharmacies.For 2025/26, funding ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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