Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Medicines Usage Reviews have taken place in each year since their introduction.

This data has been extracted from the relevant editions of the National Statistics: ‘General Pharmaceutical Services’ for England, which is published on an annual basis by NHS Digital and compares a rolling 10 years data:

2005/06: 148,195

2006/07: 559,315

2007/08: 951,358

2008/09: 1,397,319

2009/10: 1,707,139

2010/11: 2,108,604

2011/12: 2,434,128

2012/13: 2,820,415

2013/14: 3,081,108

2014/15: 3,183,094

2015/16: 3,313,309

2016/17: 3,368,005

2017/18: 3,381,441

2018/19: Not yet published