Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Frontier Economics and IQVIA final report commissioned by NHS England entitled Economic analysis of NHS pharmaceutical services in England, published in March 2025, what assessment her Department has made of the gap between current community pharmacy funding and the cost of delivering NHS services.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 17 June in response to Question 6747, and to the answer provided on 2 July in response to Question 13595.