Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department allocated to the community pharmacy contractual framework in each of the last five years.

The funding agreed for the community pharmacy contractual framework by the Department and, from 2013-14, by NHS England was:

2011-12 £2.526 billion

2012-13 £2.486 billion

2013-14 £2.8 billion

2014-15 £2.8 billion

2015-16 £2.8 billion