General Practitioners

Mr. Paice
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) GP surgeries and (b) GP surgeries per head of population in England in (i) hamlets and isolated dwellings, (ii) villages, (iii) towns and fringe settlements and (iv) settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants in each year since 1997.

Mr. Bradshaw
The Department does not hold centrally the information requested.