Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Deep End GP groupings; and how much from the public purse NHS England has spent on Deep End GP groupings in the last 12 months.

The Department has no plans to make such an assessment. Practices can choose to organise themselves in different ways to deliver primary care medical services, and commissioners can choose to commission these providers in different ways to meet the specific needs of their populations and address health inequalities. The information on NHS England expenditure on Deep End GP groupings is not held centrally.