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GP Surgeries: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve GP Practice premises to increase the number of (a) consulting rooms to allow practices to train more medical students, (b) GP Registrars and (c)

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
4 Mar 2026
Answer
9 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve GP Practice premises to increase the number of (a) consulting rooms to allow practices to train more medical students, (b) GP Registrars and (c)

  2. 4 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    In May 2025, we announced schemes which were prioritised by integrated care boards (ICBs) to benefit from the £102 million Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund (PCUMF). This fund is to deliver upgrades to more than a thousand general practice (...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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