Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS pharmacy services have transferred to the private sector in each of the last five years; what the value of each of those contracts for those services was; and what change to the cost of those services arose to each NHS Trust as a result of those changes.
The information requested is not held centrally. Such arrangements are made directly between National Health Service trusts and independent pharmacy providers.