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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 198248, tabled on 6 September 2023

Question

Simon Lightwood
Labour
Wakefield
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish a (a) response to the consultation on hub and spoke dispensing and (b) timetable for the implementation of secondary legislation.

Answer

Neil O'Brien
Conservative
Harborough
Commons

Answered on

11 September 2023

We are finalising our response to the consultation and the timetable for bringing forward the implementing of the legislation and our aim is to publish this as soon as possible. The timetable for bringing forward the implementing legislation will be dependent on the availability of Parliamentary time across the four nations.

We are committed to pursuing legislative changes to level the playing field and enable all community pharmacies to make use of hub and spoke arrangements.

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