Question follow-through · 7908
Drugs: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment his Department has made of (a) Drug Tariff reimbursement prices and (b) prices paid by community pharmacies to obtain medicines affected by supply disruption.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment his Department has made of (a) Drug Tariff reimbursement prices and (b) prices paid by community pharmacies to obtain medicines affected by supply disruption.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2026
Answer published
With regards to the Drug Tariff reimbursement prices, the community pharmacy reimbursement arrangements do not guarantee that every contractor will be paid the cost of every item; however, concessionary prices mitigate losses for individual products, whil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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