Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times each minister of his Department met representatives from (a) Boots, (b) Lloyds Pharmacy and (c) the National Pharmacy Association between 1 January and 31 March 2016.
My Rt. hon. Friend the then Minister of State (Alistair Burt) met with representatives of the pharmacy sector on a number of occasions during this period. This included a meeting with the Company Chemists’ Association, with representatives from Boots and LloydsPharmacy, on 26 October 2015; a meeting on 17 November 2015 with Pharmacy Voice, attended by the National Pharmacy Association; and a meeting on 17 December 2015 with a number of key stakeholders including the National Pharmacy Association. The then Minister of State also met with the National Pharmacy Association on 23 March 2016.