Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community pharmacies were operating in each month since January 2022; and how many community pharmacies (a) temporarily and (b) permanently closed in that same time period.

This question was answered on 23rd June 2022
The information requested on temporary closures of community pharmacies is not held centrally. Information on the number of operational pharmacies is published annually. In 2020/21, there were 11,600 active community pharmacies in England, with 236 new pharmacies opened and 451 closed.