§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients(a) in each region and (b) in England were removed from general practitioners' lists in the latest available year; how many and what proportion of these were de-registered at the request of their GP; and how many patients in England were de-registered at the request of their GP in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [29700]
§ Mr. MaloneInformation on the removal of patients is available only for 1992–93, and I refer the hon. Member to the answer that the Under-Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Mr. Bowis), gave him on 20 July at columns368–70.