Member

Amendment 46, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, also tries to increase the employment allowance to £20,000. As welcome as that would be, it would not have much impact. The average salary of a community pharmacist in the UK is £42,500. It would take only 3.5 community pharmacists in each pharmacy for the suggested £20,000 allowance to be breached. That does not include any pharmacy assistants, shop assistants or anybody else employed by a community pharmacy. It would not have the impact of helping community pharmacists.