Question follow-through · 81693

General Practitioners: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of adding (a) 1,000, (b) 1,500 and (c) 2,000 additional GPs to the professional indemnity insurance cover provided by Government.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
23 Oct 2025
Answer
23 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Health and care

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of adding (a) 1,000, (b) 1,500 and (c) 2,000 additional GPs to the professional indemnity insurance cover provided by Government.

  2. 23 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The state indemnity scheme, Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice, which is administered by NHS Resolution, already covers all clinical negligence liabilities arising in general practice under National Health Service contracts. More information ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

General Practitioners: Insurance

3 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2025 to Question 81693 on General Practitioners: Insurance, answered on 12th October 2025, how many GPs are covered under the professional indemnity insurance;

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Mercury

12 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional support will be given to NHS dentistry in the context of the decision at the Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury on ending the us

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Drugs

6 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanisms are in place for the Drug Tariff Committee and suppliers to provide input into revisions of the the Wave 1 Part IX categorisation published by the NHS Business Services Authority.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital: Veterans

19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Northern Ireland resident veterans have accessed the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen in each of the last three years.