Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate GP provision for new housing developments in Surrey Heath constituency.

We recognise the challenges that areas of significant housing and population growth can place on primary care infrastructure.

The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government to address this issue in national planning guidance and to ensure all new developments have an adequate level of healthcare infrastructure. This is alongside work to ensure developer contributions from new housing developments can be better negotiated and used towards delivering local health services and infrastructure.

The Frimley and Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Boards are responsible for commissioning, planning, securing, and monitoring general practice services within the Surrey Heath Constituency, through delegated responsibility from NHS England. The National Health Service has a statutory duty to ensure there are sufficient medical services, including general practices, in each local area. It should also take account of population growth and demographic changes.