Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 54532

Pharmacy: Employers' Contributions and Minimum Wage

Tabled: 22 May 2025
Answered: 6 June 2025

Question

Katie Lam

ConservativeWeald of Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing (a) employer National Insurance Contributions and (b) the National Minimum Wage on pharmacies in (i) Kent and (ii) Weald of

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
We took the necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget. Resource spending for the Department will be £22.6 billion more in 2025/26 than in 2023/24, as part of the Spending Review settlement.The Department consid...

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