Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in each year since 2014, how much funding they provided to community pharmacies in retained margin in real terms as part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework; and what was the cost of medicines bought by community pharmacies.

The retained medicine margin as allowed under the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework funding for years 2014/15 to 2021/22 was £800 million per year; for 2022/23 and 2023/24 it is £850 million. The Department does not hold the cost information requested as our data refers to the whole of primary care and we do not have figures for community pharmacy only