Question follow-through · 100592
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider NHS funding adjustments for pharmacies to offset increases in National Minimum Wage and employer National Insurance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 20 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
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider NHS funding adjustments for pharmacies to offset increases in National Minimum Wage and employer National Insurance.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
For 2025/26, funding for the core community pharmacy contractual framework was increased to £3.1 billion. This represented the largest uplift in funding of any part of the National Health Service at the time, over 19% across 2024/25 and 2025/26. As is cus...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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