PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: Income (17 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average funding award was to each GP practice in receipt of funding under the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee in (a) England, (b) London, (c) the London Borough of Islington and (d) Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The available information is shown in the table below. Data is only available for England. Prior to 2008/09, figures were only collected for Global Sum and Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) payments combined. Average MPIG funding is only available from 2009/10 onwards.

Year	Total MPIG payment, England (£000s)	Average MPIG payment per practice, England (£000s)
2008/09	306,574	-
2009/10	160,916	35.34
2010/11	121,103	26.69
2011/12	117,651	25.68
2012/13	116,164	26.06
2013/14	118,490	27.27

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Note: Total funding and average funding per practice are as at the end of the financial year. Average funding per practice is based on total funding divided by total number of practices.

Answered by:
Alistair Burt (Conservative)
25 June 2015