Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had on the provision of GP surgeries in Wiltshire.

Decisions about local health services are for local determination. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has had no recent discussions on the provision of general practitioner surgeries in Wiltshire and has no current plans to visit Wiltshire.

We are advised by NHS England that the plans for a branch surgery in Lyneham were declined by the Primary Care Joint Commissioning Committee for Wiltshire, because a Local Authority Needs Assessment decided that there was no unmet health need in Lyneham. However, the Committee has identified a number of areas for improved service delivery and NHS England is working with local providers to address this.