Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the proportion of GP appointments in Washington and Sunderland West constituency conducted face-to-face in the past 12 months; and what the figure was in 2013.

This information is not collected in the format requested. In the 12 months to August 2022, there were 18.5 million general practice appointments in the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System area, excluding COVID-19 vaccinations. Of these, 68.1% were conducted face-to-face.