Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 181567, to list (a) the distance selling pharmacies used in the calculation provided in that Answer, (b) the average number of items dispensed each month for each in 2017/18 and (c) the average fee earned per prescription item for each in 2017-18.

The list of distance selling pharmacies used in that calculation is in the attached table alongside their average number of prescription items in 2017/18. It would prejudice companies’ commercial interest to disclose the average fee per prescription item for each individual contractor and for this reason this information is provided as a range between £1.25 and £23.74.