Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to collect data on the average yearly earnings of GPs employed by the NHS by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency.

We are taking steps to make more information available on average earnings of general practitioners (GPs). In September 2014 NHS Employers and the GP Committee of the British Medical Association announced changes to the General Medical Services (GMS) contract for 2015/16, including new requirements to publish net earnings. Practices are required to publish by 31 March 2016 mean net earnings that relate to the GMS contract for contractor and salaried GPs in their practice for the period 2014/15.