Pharmacy: Business Rates and Minimum Wage
Commons · Question 43675 · Tabled 2 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to community pharmacies of the rise in (a) business rates and (b) the National Minimum Wage from 1 April 2025.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 8 Apr 2025
We have taken the necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, and this enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.T...