Question follow-through · 76890
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for additional pharmacies were declined following a pharmaceutical needs assessment that identified a lack of need in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for additional pharmacies were declined following a pharmaceutical needs assessment that identified a lack of need in each of the last five years.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Sept 2025
Answer published
Decisions on applications to open a new pharmacy are delegated from NHS England to National Health Service integrated care boards, and the Department does not hold data on how many applications were rejected or the reasons for these rejections. If a pharm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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