Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April to Question 176748 on General Practitioners: Closures, if he will publish a list of the 158 practices that have been either closed or merged.

A table showing the 158 practices that closed or merged in England between January 2022 and December 2022 is attached. Where a practice merges with another and becomes a branch, this may be recorded as a closure even though patients may still be able to access services at the location of the original practice. Practices close for a variety of reasons, including mergers or retirement.