To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was allocated by the Government to pharmacies in each year from 1997-98 to 2016-17.
Answered on
5 April 2017
The current community pharmacy contractual framework and system of payments dates from 2005/06, with remuneration under those arrangements set out in the table below:
Financial year | Remuneration budget (£ billion) |
2005/06 | 1.8 |
2006/07 | 1.9 |
2007/08 | 1.9 |
2008/09 | 2.2 |
2009/10 | 2.5 |
2010/11 | 2.5 |
2011/12 | 2.5 |
2012/13 | 2.5 |
2013/14 | 2.8 |
2014/15 | 2.8 |
2015/16 | 2.8 |
2016/17 | 2.7 |
The budget figures in the table only cover essential and advanced services, as commissioned centrally under the community pharmacy contractual framework. Community pharmacies are also commissioned locally to provide services, originally by primary care trusts and more recently by NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities. Information on the level of funding received by community pharmacies for those locally commissioned services is not held centrally.