Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March to Question 161414 on General Practitioners: East of England, what data his Department holds on the closures of GP surgeries in the last twelve months in (a) each county in the East of England and (b) England.

During the most recent 12-month period for which data is available, which is January 2022 to December 2022, 158 practices closed in England. No confirmed closures have yet taken place in 2023.

Where a practice merges with another and becomes a branch, this may be recorded as a closure even though patients may still be able to access services at the location of the original practice.

In regard to closures per county across England, we do not hold the data in this format.