Dental Services: Expenditure

(asked on 12th January 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Cat Smith Portrait
Cat Smith
(Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total expenditure was in (a) nominal and (b) real terms on NHS primary dental services in England (i) gross and (ii) net of patient charge revenue in each year since 2010-11.

Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 17th February 2022

Data is not available on the total expenditure of National Health Service (NHS) primary dental services in real terms or per head of population.

The total expenditure on NHS primary dental services in England in nominal terms, gross and net of patient charge revenue from 2010/11 can be seen in the following table:

Financial Year

Gross £’000

Net £’000

Total funding (central funding plus income from patient charges)

Central funding

2010/11

2,692,979

2,075,965

2011/12

2,812,681

2,175,560

2012/13

2,843,691

2,190,685

2013/14

2,740,052

2,056,469

2014/15

2,746,308

2,030,294

2015/16

2,804,061

2,060,218

2016/17

2,767,908

1,991,096

2017/18

2,811,569

2,004,236

2018/19

2,788,494

1,932,110

2019/20

2,958,262

2,109,970

2020/21

3,031,109

2,753,444

Source: Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts.

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