Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the value of funding received by community pharmacists under the (a) Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and (b) the Bounce Back Loan Scheme.
The Department has made no assessment of the take up of these loans by community pharmacy. However, we have made extra advance payments of £350 million for National Health Service pharmaceutical services to support community pharmacy through this period.