Question follow-through · 9245

GP Surgeries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving the responsibility for the allocation of GP surgeries to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 15 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 17 Oct 2024
Answer: 31 Oct 2024 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving the responsibility for the allocation of GP surgeries to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
There are currently no plans for assessing whether the responsibility of the allocation of general practice surgeries should fall to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Upper-tier local authorities currently have a role in improving...

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