Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total number of (a) internet and (b) high street community pharmacies in England has been in each year since 2007-08 in (i) total and (ii) each local authority area.

NHS Digital releases an annual General Pharmaceutical Services publication which has data on the total number of community pharmacies, providing National Health Service pharmaceutical services in England, including high street pharmacies, as well as the number of wholly distance selling pharmacies, including internet pharmacies. Data for the latter was only collected from 2008/09. As NHS pharmaceutical services are commissioned by the NHS, rather than local authorities, local data is based on primary care trusts until 2012/13 and NHS England Regions from April 2013. The latest release, covering the period 2006/07 to 2015/16, is available at:

http://www.content.digital.nhs.uk/pubs/genphasernov16