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Mr. Cyril Smith
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the ratio of practising general practitioners per head of population in each of the regional health authorities of England.
Mr. Moyle
At 1st July 1976 the numbers of doctors providing the full range of general medical services per 100,000 population were as follows:—
| Northern | 42 |
| Yorkshire | 43 |
| Trent | 41 |
| East Anglia | 44 |
| North West Thames | 49 |
| North East Thames | 47 |
| South East Thames | 46 |
| South West Thames | 46 |
| Wessex | 46 |
| Oxford | 44 |
| South Western | 47 |
| West Midlands | 43 |
| Mersey | 42 |
| North Western | 42 |