To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacancies for the position of GP there are in each (a) local authority area and (b) health authority area; and what such figures represent per head of population.

The information is not collected by the Department. The last GP Vacancy Survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from National Health Service organisations.