Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the funding announced on the NHS England website on 25 January 2022 on securing additional dental appointments for people with oral pain, disease, and infection, how many of those additional NHS appointments he estimates will be in (a) the Brighton and Hove CCG area and (b) the South East region.

No regional estimates have been made.

£6,887,000 was allocated to the South East. National Health Service regional teams are currently working to commission this additional activity and the scheme has been developed to be attractive to dentists, with those involved in the scheme to be paid more than a third on top of their normal sessional fee for delivering this care outside of core hours, such as early morning and weekend work.