Oral Answers to Questions

Mohammad Yasin Excerpts

Tuesday 24th January 2023 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Let me just remind people: these are questions to the Government.

[Mohammad Yasin (Bedford) (Lab)]

4. What steps he is taking to help improve access to GPs.

[The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Steve Barclay)]

We recognise that increased demand has had an impact on GP services. That is why we are investing at least £1.5 billion to create an additional 50 million GP appointments by 2024.

[Mohammad Yasin]

There is a clear failure to invest in critical infrastructure across the primary care estate, for example, in modernising in-patient mental health services and GP hubs. To make matters worse, Government bureaucracy is holding up capital funding allocations. My constituents deserve better community care and hospitals need relief, so when will the Government finally release the funding to build the facilities desperately needed in Bedford and Kempston?