Question follow-through · 40955
General Practitioners: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase core funding for GP practices.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase core funding for GP practices.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
We are investing an additional £889 million into core funding for general practice (GP) to reinforce the front door of the National Health Service, bringing total spend on the GP Contract to £13.2 billion in 2025/26. This is the biggest increase in over a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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