Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs were working in each English region in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2015-16.

NHS Digital publishes data on general practices annually in the General and Personal Medical Services, England census as at September in each year.

The attached tables provide the total number of general practitioners including registrars and retainers by headcount working in each English region as at September 2010 and September 2015. Respectively, the data is broken down by strategic health authority and primary care trust, and by NHS England region geography and clinical commissioning group.

Locums have been excluded from the data for purposes of comparability between 2010 and 2015.