Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 43675

Pharmacy: Business Rates and Minimum Wage

Tabled: 2 April 2025
Answered: 8 April 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to community pharmacies of the rise in (a) business rates and (b) the National Minimum Wage from 1 April 2025.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
We have taken the necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, and this enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.T...

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