Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis is for his Department's proposal on a smaller number of large volume pharmacies reducing costs or improving NHS services.

The aims of the community pharmacy reforms are to improve the service offered to the public, make better use of pharmacists’ valuable clinical skills, and allocate taxpayers’ money more efficiently. Those reforms do not have a proposal on a smaller number of large volume pharmacies reducing costs or improving NHS services.