Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs there were employed in the (a) Primary Care Trust and (b) Clinical Commissioning Group serving Woking constituency in each year since 2010.

National Health Service workforce data is not available at constituency level. Such information is available in the following table. Due to differences in boundaries, primary care trust (PCT) data from 2010 to 2012 is not comparable to clinical commissioning group (CCG) data in 2013 and 2014.

General practitioners (GPs) by selected area in England: Headcount and full-time equivalent 2010-2014

Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Notes:

Data as at 30 September 2014 for each year. NHS workforce data is not available at constituency level. Woking constituency is contained within and serviced by NHS North West Surrey CCG. Prior to 1 April 2013, Woking constituency was contained within and serviced by Surrey PCT. Due to the differences in boundaries, PCT data from 2010-2012 is not comparable to CCG data in 2013 and 2014.

The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.