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 27 March 2025 to Qquestion 38429 on General Practitioners: Finance, from what year is the (a) GP expenses data, (b) patient data used to calculate the distance from the patients’ homes to the GP surgery and (c) the population density used in the rurality adjustment of the Carr-Hill formula.

Global sum payments to general practices (GPs) are based on the Carr-Hill formula. The staff market forces factor is based on earnings data from 1999 to 2001. For the rurality component, the GP expenses data is from 2000 to 2001. The patient data used to calculate the distance from patients’ homes to the GP surgery uses patients’ current addresses. The population density data used in the rurality adjustment is from 2001.