Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2015 to Question 221072, if he will make it his policy to collect data (a) on the average time a GP spends with a patient with a mental illness and (b) which may be used to monitor the quality of relationships between doctors and patients in other ways.

Data relating to the length of individual consultations with general practitioners is not collected centrally.