HC Deb 22 January 1997 vol 288 cc663-4W
Mrs. Ray Michie

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to safeguard rural pharmacies. [11474]

Mr. Malone

In England and Wales the essential small pharmacy scheme already provides financial support to pharmacies located more than 1 km from the next nearest pharmacy and which dispense fewer than 18,636 national health service prescriptions in a year.