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Pharmacy: Finance

Commons · Question 43676 · 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 he has made of the proportion of additional funding for community pharmacies that will be required from 1 April 2025 to cover the increase in (a) employer National Insurance contribut

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....