Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, How many (a) GP practices and (b) Primary Care Networks providing NHS care are currently registered as Limited Liability Partnerships.

The Department does not hold comprehensive data on the types of organisations delivering general practice services.

However, we expect that a large majority of GP practices operate as traditional GP partnerships, rather than Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs). Approximately 95 percent of practices hold General Medical Services or Personal Medical Services contracts, which cannot be held by LLPs.

Alternative Provider Medical Service (APMS) contracts, which offer greater flexibility, can be held by LLPs. However, only around 5 percent of GP practices hold APMS contracts, and not all of these operate as LLPs.

Primary Care Networks do not hold GP contracts in their own right and are not required to form legal entities. Therefore, we expect very few operate as LLPs.