General Practitioners: Finance

(asked on 20th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2015 to Question 2847, what the total amount of funding was under the (a) global sum and (b) Minimum Practice Income Guarantee received by GP practices in (i) England, (ii) London, (iii) the London Borough of Islington and (iv) Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 8th September 2015

Figures for England are shown in the following table:

2009/10

(£000s)

2010/11

(£000s)

2011/12

(£000s)

2012/13

(£000s)

2013/14

(£000s)

Global Sum

1,737,523

1,810,552

1,825,728

1,848,056

1,989,437

Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG)

160,916

121,103

117,651

116,164

118,490

Total Global Sum and MPIG

1,898,439

1,931,655

1,943,679

1,964,220

2,107,927

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre

Figures for London, the Borough of Islington and Islington South and Finsbury constituency are not available prior to 2013/14. Figures for 2014/15 are being audited and are not yet available. Information for 2013/14 is shown in the following table:

Global Sum

(£ million)

MPIG

(£ million)

Total Global Sum and MPIG

(£ million)

London

238

20.5

258.5

Borough of Islington

14.5

1.4

15.9

Islington South and Finsbury

8.5

0.9

9.4

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre

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