Question follow-through · 96134

Pharmacy: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of unregistered pharmacies that are operating.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
4 Dec 2025
Answer
15 Dec 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of unregistered pharmacies that are operating.

  2. 4 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    Pharmacy is a protected title in law, and it is a criminal offence for a business to engage in regulated activity, for example supplying pharmacy only medicines to the public, and call themselves ‘a pharmacy’ if they are not registered with the pharmacy r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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