Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will provide additional resources to North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group to allow GP surgeries in that group's area to take on new patients.

The Department is aware that three general practitioner practices in Clacton have temporarily closed their list to new patients. This is a matter for NHS England.

NHS England advises that it is working with these practices to agree actions needed to re-open their lists in the near future.