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General Practitioners: Finance

Commons · Question 74051 · Tabled 1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his polices of regional variances in GP surgery expansion approvals under the integrated care board-led funding mechanism.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 16 Oct 2025

Primary care funding is formulated within NHS England allocations, which account for elements of population growth and other factors such as weighted need. The allocations process uses a statistical formula to make geographic distribution fair and objecti...