Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of General Practitioners' report entitled Fit for the Future GP Pressures 2023 published in March 2023, whether his Department plans to develop local retention initiatives for GPs.

NHS England has made available a number of recruitment and retention schemes to boost the general practice (GP) workforce. This includes the Local GP Retention Fund, which helps GPs to stay in the workforce by promoting new ways of working and offering additional support.