HC Deb 27 November 1972 vol 847 c3W
Mr. McBride

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will state, to the nearest convenient date the number of doctors engaged in general practice in Wales, as compared with the number in practice in the years 1969, 1970 and 1971.

Mr. Gibson-Watt

The number of practitioners providing full general medical services is provisionally estimated to have been 1,261 at 1st April, 1972. Corresponding figures in 1969, 1970 and 1971 were 1,230, 1,245 and 1,259.