Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to use community pharmacies to support future covid-19 treatment and vaccine programmes and help reduce pressures on GPs and hospitals.

Plans for the supply of any COVID-19 treatments and vaccination programme will be finalised when further information is available on the medicines concerned. This includes route of administration and risk profile. However, we recognise that community pharmacy has proved a trusted delivery partner, offering convenience and unrivalled access, supplying medicines and expanding the reach of the flu vaccination programme into the communities they serve.