Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions between 1 October 2016 and 21 October 2016 (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have met representatives of (i) Boots, (ii) Lloyds Pharmacy and (iii) the National Pharmacy Association.

My Rt. hon. Friend the then Minister of State (Alistair Burt) met with Pharmacy Voice on 26 April 2016 when a representative of the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) was in attendance.

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State met with the Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance on 26 July 2016.

I met representatives of the NPA informally when I attended the Pharmacy Business Awards on 13 October 2016.

Officials met with representatives of Walgreens Boots Alliance on 26 April 2016. A representative of the NPA attended a stakeholder event on 28 April 2016 on “Community pharmacy in 2016/17 and beyond”.