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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospital pharmacies have had
their dispensary services put out to tender to private companies since the coming
into force of the Health and Social Care Act 2012; what the equivalent figure was
prior to that date; how many such companies dispense or deliver medication to NHS
(a) outpatients and (b) hospital inpatients; and what the total amount of VAT (i)
reclaimed by all such companies since that date and (ii) paid by all the incumbent
NHS hospital pharmacies whose services have not been put out to tender to private
companies since that date was.
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