Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make the morning-after pill free at pharmacies in (a) Staffordshire and (b) England.

The Department is currently planning to expand the Pharmacy Contraception Service to include the supply of emergency hormonal contraception from October 2025. This means women will have access to the ‘morning-after pill’ free of charge at pharmacies on the National Health Service, which will ensure a consistent offer across the country.