Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the data available on the trends in the levels of practitioners in the dental workforce.

The Department and it’s arms length bodies utilise data collected by NHS Digital on the dental workforce, including on levels of practitioners in the dental workforce, which are available via the following links:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/dental-working-hours

This data is adequate for the role of informing policy in relation to National Health Service dentistry.