Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to and availability of GP (a) services and (b) appointments.

We expect the measures in 'Our Plan for Patients' to make over a million more appointments available this winter.

We have provided 31,000 additional phone lines to practices, freed up funding rules to bolster general practice teams with other professionals, and accelerated support for practices to secure high-quality cloud-based telephony systems.

From November 2022, we will publish practice-level data for the first time, giving patients information on appointments at every GP practice in England.