General Practitioners: Income

(asked on 17th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average funding award was to each GP practice in receipt of funding under the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee in (a) England, (b) London, (c) the London Borough of Islington and (d) Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 25th June 2015

The available information is shown in the table below. Data is only available for England. Prior to 2008/09, figures were only collected for Global Sum and Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) payments combined. Average MPIG funding is only available from 2009/10 onwards.

Year

Total MPIG payment,

England (£000s)

Average MPIG payment per practice,

England (£000s)

2008/09

306,574

-

2009/10

160,916

35.34

2010/11

121,103

26.69

2011/12

117,651

25.68

2012/13

116,164

26.06

2013/14

118,490

27.27

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Note: Total funding and average funding per practice are as at the end of the financial year. Average funding per practice is based on total funding divided by total number of practices.

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