Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs were employed in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) Leeds in each of the last five years.

The information for all general practitioner (GP) numbers (full-time equivalent) is shown in the following table and is available in General and Personal Medical Services Statistics on the Health and Social Care Information Centre website at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16934

All GPs by selected area in England: Full-time equivalent; for years 2010 to 2014

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

Notes:

1. Data as at 30 September for each year.

2. Full-time equivalent GPs are rounded to the nearest whole number.

3. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) replaced primary care trusts (PCTs) in April 2013. Accordingly, data are provided for the five PCTs that cover the West Yorkshire area for years 2010-12 and the 10 CCGs that cover the West Yorkshire area for years 2013-14. It must be noted that because of the transition between PCTs to CCGs, mapping may not be coterminous in all instances.

4. '.' denotes not applicable.

Data quality:

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.