Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors employed part-time in general practice also drew a pension in each year from 2010.

Most general practitioners (GPs) are independent contractors and not employed by the National Health Service. Therefore, there is no way of designating GPs as part-time or full-time.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre do not hold information on how many new part-time contracts the NHS offered to general practice doctors in each year since 2010. They are also unable to ascertain which contracts are new from their census data. Also, there is no distinct definition of part-time working in the terms of the latest GP contract.