Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 96134

Pharmacy: Registration

Tabled: 2 December 2025

Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of unregistered pharmacies that are operating.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

Pharmacy is a protected title in law, and it is a criminal offence for a business to engage in regulated activity, for example supplying pharmacy only medicines to the public, and call themselves ‘a pharmacy’ if they are not registered with the pharmacy r...

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