To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the GP to patient ratio was in each (a) strategic health authority and (b) primary care trust in England in each of the last five years. (142417)

Tables have been placed in the Library showing the number of general practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars), the number of patients and the ratio of one to the other in each strategic health authority and each primary care trust in England in each of the last five years.

For the period 2002-05, the table is based on the 303 primary care trusts which existed before the reorganisation in October 2006.