Question follow-through · 69393
General Practitioners: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the numbers of GP training places in the last five years
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2025 · 46 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the numbers of GP training places in the last five years
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
The number of general practice (GP) training places for the past four years has been 4,001. From September 2025, we are increasing GP training places to 4,500 as part of a broader plan to expand training further by 2031. This increase is part of a larger ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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