§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many general practitioners received gross payments in excess of £200,000 per year in each year since 1991–92.
§ Mr. StewartThe information is not available for 1991–92 and is available for 1992–93 only on a practice basis. In 1992–93 the average payment per general practitioner within a practice exceeded £200,000 in 12 practices containing a total of 13 practitioners.
All 12 of the practices were dispensing practices and the payments included all payments in respect of dispensing —including payments for the supply of drugs—as well as the usual gross payments in respect of the provision of general medical services.