Pharmacy: Employers' Contributions and Minimum Wage
Commons · Question 54532 · Tabled 22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Katie Lam
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing (a) employer National Insurance Contributions and (b) the National Minimum Wage on pharmacies in (i) Kent and (ii) Weald of
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 6 Jun 2025
We took the necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget. Resource spending for the Department will be £22.6 billion more in 2025/26 than in 2023/24, as part of the Spending Review settlement.The Department consid...