HC Deb 05 November 1996 vol 284 c493W
13. Mr. Pope

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to provide assistance to small community pharmacies. [621]

Mr. Malone

The essential small pharmacy scheme already provides financial support to pharmacies located more than 1km from the next nearest pharmacy and which dispense fewer than 18,432 national health service prescriptions in a year.