Question follow-through · 68825
General Practitioners: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices (a) opened and (b) closed in (i) Birmingham Edgbaston constituency, (ii) Birmingham and (iii) the West Midlands between May 2010 and June 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices (a) opened and (b) closed in (i) Birmingham Edgbaston constituency, (ii) Birmingham and (iii) the West Midlands between May 2010 and June 2024.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
The tables in the document attached show the number of general practices (GPs) which have opened and closed between January 2014 and May 2025 in the Birmingham Edgbaston constituency, in Birmingham, and in the West Midlands, as this is the furthest the da...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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