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General Practitioners: Unemployment

Commons · Question 40952 · Tabled 24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Joshua Reynolds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of GP unemployment.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 2 Apr 2025

We are investing an additional £889 million through the GP Contract to reinforce the front door of the National Health Service, bringing total spend on the GP Contract to £13.2 billion in 2025/26. This is the biggest increase in over a decade.Under recent...