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Written Question
Dental Services: Children
Thursday 24th July 2025

Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have been hospitalised needing treatment for dental decay in (a) Bolsover constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England in each of the last five years.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) publishes annual official statistics on tooth extractions in zero- to 19-year-olds that take place in a National Health Service hospital setting in England. The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) for tooth extraction with dental caries, also known as tooth decay, as the primary diagnosis code between the 2019/20 and 2023/24 financial years, for children aged zero to 19 years old in England, in the Derbyshire upper tier local authority, and in the Bolsover lower tier local authority:

Financial year

England

Derbyshire

Bolsover

2023/24

30,587

105

15

2022/23

31,165

110

10

2021/22

26,741

135

15

2020/21

14,645

100

15

2019/20

35,190

175

15

Source: the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ annual statistics on tooth extractions zero to 19 year olds that take place in an NHS hospital setting in England, available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hospital-based-tooth-extractions-in-0-to-19-year-olds

Notes:

  1. the information requested is not available for Bolsover constituency, as OHID does not publish data at constituency level;
  2. Derbyshire refers to the Derbyshire upper tier local authority, the Derbyshire County Council;
  3. Bolsover refers to Bolsover lower tier local authority, the Bolsover District Council, not the Bolsover constituency;
  4. England’s total FCE counts are unrounded and include activity with invalid or missing region and local authority codes;
  5. All sub-national FCE counts are rounded to the nearest five as per NHS Digital’s disclosure controls;
  6. figures show the number of FCEs, not the number of individual children who received these treatments, and therefore one child may have had more than one FCE; and
  7. a quality note on the data is available at the following link:
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/analysis-of-tooth-extractions-in-hospital-methods-and-data-quality/data-quality-and-disclosure-control-for-hospital-based-tooth-extraction-data
Written Question
Care Homes: Bolsover
Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered care homes received a Care Quality Commission assessment as (a) requires improvement and (b) inadequate, in each of the last five years in Bolsover constituency.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

In the last five years, the Care Quality Commission carried out ten inspections or re-inspection activity, across the time frame, for six care homes in the Bolsover constituency. Seven assessments of care homes resulted in a rating of “requires improvement” and three resulted in a rating of “inadequate”. This data has been taken from the five-year period starting 1 July 2020.