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Pharmacy: Costs

Commons · Question 44775 · Tabled 7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Apr 2025

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Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to community pharmacies of changes in the level of (a) employer National Insurance contributions, (b) business rates and (c) the National Minimum W

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 30 Apr 2025

We have taken the necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, which enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.The ...