To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioner surgeries in Salford offered extended opening times in (a) 1997 and (b) the latest date for which information is available. (317393)

The information is not available in the format requested. The Department's latest published data show that as at July 2009, in the Salford primary care trust area, 39 out of 53 general practitioner practices (73.6 per cent.) were offering extended opening hours to patients. The figure for the North West Strategic Health Authority is 71.3 per cent., and the figure for England is 77.1 per cent.

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Department of Health.