Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices in Greater London are run by private sector companies as of 12 July 2022; and what the equivalent number was on that date in (b) 2021, (b) 2020 and (c) 2019.

All general practitioner (GP) practices are administered by GPs or other organisations and work under contract to the National Health Service. All contract holders and providers of NHS core primary medical services are subject to the same requirements, regulation and standards. In Islington, there are 25 practices administered by GP partnerships, three by individual GPs and three by companies. Barnsbury Medical Practice is administered by Islington GP Group (Islington Federation); and Mitchison Road Surgery and Hanley Primary Care Centre by AT Medics. The number of GP practices in Greater London run by private sector companies in each year since 2019 is not held centrally.