Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2017 to Question 111200, on general practitioners, if he will provide the number of general practitioners for 2015, 2016 and 2017 with locums not included.

The requested information is shown in the table below. The figures do not include locums.

There are more than 3,000 general practitioners (GPs) in training and 500 new medical school places will be available in 2018, with a further 1,000 in 2019. NHS England also plans to recruit an extra 2,000 overseas doctors over the next three years.

We have also outlined more flexible working options so we can retain the expertise of more experienced GPs within primary care.

Data as at 30 September each year except for 2017 which is at 30 June 2017.

Source: NHS Digital