Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100592

Pharmacy: Finance

Tabled: 16 December 2025

Answered: 5 January 2026

Named Day

Question

Paulette Hamilton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider NHS funding adjustments for pharmacies to offset increases in National Minimum Wage and employer National Insurance.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

For 2025/26, funding for the core community pharmacy contractual framework was increased to £3.1 billion. This represented the largest uplift in funding of any part of the National Health Service at the time, over 19% across 2024/25 and 2025/26. As is cus...

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