Pharmacy: Registration
Commons · Question 96134 · Tabled 2 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of unregistered pharmacies that are operating.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 15 Dec 2025
Pharmacy is a protected title in law, and it is a criminal offence for a business to engage in regulated activity, for example supplying pharmacy only medicines to the public, and call themselves ‘a pharmacy’ if they are not registered with the pharmacy r...