To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether under general practitioner practice-based commissioning, GPs will be able to retain savings made against their budgets to be put towards patient services. (94001)

All practices will receive an indicative budget from the primary care trust, covering an agreed scope of health care services as partof the implementation plan for practice-based commissioning. Practices that under spend against their indicative budget will have access to the resources freed up. For 2006-07 we have recommended that individual practices should be entitled to access and redirect at least 70 per cent. of any freed-up resource.