Primary Health Care: Buildings
Commons · Question 106018 · Tabled 14 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the additional costs of maintaining and developing primary care estates in island, rural, and coastal communities.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 28 Jan 2026
There is no separate assessment of general practice (GP) premises as part of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) assessments of practices. The CQC’s Premises Regulations, primarily Regulation 15, mandate that care locations must be clean, suitable, secure...