PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pharmacy: Finance (13 October 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has provided to communities pharmacies through the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework in real terms accounting for inflation in each year since 2019.

Asked by:
Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat)

The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 2019-24 commits £2.592 billion per year to community pharmacy. The following table shows the nominal and real terms funding accounting for inflation in each year since 2018/19.

	Nominal funding	September 2022 gross domestic product deflator	Real funding
2018/19 baseline	£2.592 billion	100.0	£2.592 billion
2019/20	£2.592 billion	102.6	£2.526 billion
2020/21	£2.592 billion	109.2	£2.374 billion
2021/22	£2.592 billion	108.7	£2.385 billion
2022/23	£2.592 billion	113.1	£2.293 billion

In addition, the agreement with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee for 2022/23 and 2023/24, announced on 22 September 2022, provides a non-recurrent additional investment of £100 million.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
20 October 2022