Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in the pharmacy sector.

Ministers have no plans to review corporate governance or policies on corporate social responsibility in the pharmacy sector. Community pharmacies contracted to deliver National Health Service pharmaceutical services are private businesses. Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the General Pharmaceutical Council and pharmacy businesses, like all others, are subject to health and safety legislation that aims to protect the health, safety and welfare of staff.