Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on GP appointments in Barking and Dagenham; and what format data is held in.

The Department itself does not hold data on general practice appointments. However, NHS Digital publishes general practice appointment data on the last Thursday of each month, which is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/appointments-in-general-practice.

The data is published by NHS Region, and integrated care board area. Since November 2022, the publication has also included general practitioner practice level appointment data for the first time, which could be aggregated to constituency areas. This practice-level data is not available for months before October 2021.

The data is published in a summary Excel spreadsheet, and in a comma-separated values file.