Request

You asked us:

Community Pharmacy Greater Manchester is the statutory body representing pharmacy contractors in Greater Manchester.   
The NHS BSA collect levies on our behalf, but we have no breakdown of payments.

Please provide an excel spread sheet with the ODS (F code), Month payment received, and amount of levy collected for all pharmacy contractors in Greater Manchester. Information is required from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025.

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 26 September 2025

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.

Our response

Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

The information you requested is available on the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Open Data Portal (ODP).

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

Advice and assistance

The following datasets provide a breakdown of levy payments for all pharmacies at ODS F code level, including the following categories:

• LPC_VOLUNTARY_LEVY
• LPC_VOLUNTARY_LEVY_ADJUSTMENT
• LPC_STATUTORY_LEVY
• LPC_STATUTORY_LEVY_ADJUSTMENT

April 2024 – May 2024: FOI-02117
June 2024 – January 2025: FOI-02691
February 2025 – March 2025: FOI-02908

If you require a list of which pharmacies are listed under Community Pharmacy Greater Manchester, this can be found by using the Contractor Details report on the Open Data Portal, available at: Contractor Details

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03211

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.