Question follow-through · 19565
General Practitioners: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing details of the GP contract earlier in the year to improve forward planning.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 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 publishing details of the GP contract earlier in the year to improve forward planning.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, wrote to general practices on 20 December 2024 to confirm an £889 million uplift to the contract for 2025/26 and set out the proposed areas of reform. The proposed changes to the contr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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