PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners (17 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average (a) yearly earnings, excluding office costs, and (b) number of hours worked per week of GPs in (i) England, (ii) London, (iii) the London Borough of Islington and (iv) Islington South and Finsbury constituency.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

Information on the number of hours worked per week of general practitioners (GPs) is not collected centrally.

Information on earnings provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre is given below. Information is not available by individual London boroughs or by constituency.

Mean Average Income Before Tax, General and Personal Medical Services (GPMS) Contractor GPs, 2010/11 - 2012/13
	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13
England	£107,700	£106,100	£105,100
London Strategic Health Authority (SHA)	£111,200	£110,000	£111,000
London NHS England Region	-	£110,000	£111,000

Mean Average Income Before Tax, GPMS Salaried GPs, 2010/11 - 2012/13
	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13
England	£57,900	£57,000	£56,600
London SHA	£59,300	£59,100	£59,300
London NHS England Region	-	£59,100	£59,300

Notes:

The time series are presented in cash terms of Income Before Tax, which is after the deduction of expenses.

Expenses are business expenses from National Health Service and private work allowable for tax purposes and fall into one of the following categories: Office and General Business, Premises, Employee, Car and Travel, Interest, Other, and Net Capital Allowance.

The 'Other' category includes: ‘Advertising and business entertainment costs’, interest for businesses where turnover is <£77,000 and interest is not reported separately, expenses for businesses (where turnover is low) and detailed expense breakdown not available and cost of drugs for dispensing GPs.

NHS England region figures are only available from 2011/12 onwards (unavailable data denoted by "-")

Figures are rounded to the nearest £100.

Answered by:
Ben Gummer (Conservative)
25 June 2015