Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy regarding the ownership of dental practices.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
No estimate has been made of the number of different owners of dental practices nor of the average cost of purchase of dental practices.
Any person who provides regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In order to obtain a registration with the CQC, a dental practice is assessed against the CQC’s registration assessment framework to assess if applicants will provide services that are safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led. As part of the registration process, checks are made on Directors listed in the application and any individuals nominated by the provider company to be held legally responsible for carrying on the regulated activities applied for. If a practice cannot meet the standards set out within the framework, the CQC will refuse the application. The Dentists Act 1984 lays out restrictions on carrying on the business of dentistry.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of different owners of dental practices in England.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
No estimate has been made of the number of different owners of dental practices nor of the average cost of purchase of dental practices.
Any person who provides regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In order to obtain a registration with the CQC, a dental practice is assessed against the CQC’s registration assessment framework to assess if applicants will provide services that are safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led. As part of the registration process, checks are made on Directors listed in the application and any individuals nominated by the provider company to be held legally responsible for carrying on the regulated activities applied for. If a practice cannot meet the standards set out within the framework, the CQC will refuse the application. The Dentists Act 1984 lays out restrictions on carrying on the business of dentistry.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people working in dental practices.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
This information is not available in the format requested. However, in January 2022, there was a total of 113,795 dentists and dental care professionals in the United Kingdom registered with the General Dental Council.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many dental practices there are in England.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
As of June 2021, there were 10,894 dental practices in England registered with the Care Quality Commission.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new hospitals have been completed and brought into operation in England since 2010.
Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
There have been 19 new hospitals brought into operation in England since 2010. This includes one hospital completed since Government’s commitment in October 2020 to deliver 48 hospitals by 2030 and 18 completed prior to that announcement.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the manpower of the NHS Ambulance Service in England (1) in 2010, and (2) at present.
Answered by Lord Bethell
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) number of staff working in all ambulance trusts in England as at March 2021, the latest data available and at March 2010.
| FTE in all ambulance trusts in England |
March 2010 | 34,408 |
March 2021 | 47,932 |
Source: NHS Digital HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS hospital beds there were in (1) 2010, (2) 2015, and (3) 2020.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Information is not available in the format requested as data is not collected on the total number of hospital beds by year.
Asked by: Lord Jones (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Accident and Emergency units there were in England in (1) 2010, and (2) 2018.
Answered by Lord Bethell
This information is not collected centrally.