Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will undertake a review of the adequacy of the levels of funding provided to general practices for providing long acting reversible contraception.

There are currently no plans to review the levels of funding provided to general practices for providing long-acting reversible contraception. Under the GP contract, contraceptive services are an essential service that practices must provide or arrange for the provision of. Practices are paid for providing essential services via the global sum, which is a capitated payment based on practice patient list size, weighted to account for estimated patient workload and unavoidable costs.

During the pandemic, we made £520 million available to improve access to general practice services and expand general practice capacity, in addition to at least £1.5 billion announced in 2020 to create a further 50 million general practice appointments by 2024 by increasing and diversifying the workforce.