Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to tackle GP shortages in deprived areas.

We launched the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme in 2016, which has attracted doctors to train in hard to recruit locations by providing a one-off financial incentive of £20,000. In 2021, there were 550 places were available and through additional investment, there are 800 places in 2022.