Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much expenditure was reclaimed (a) nationally and (b) per region by NHS England from primary care dental practices that did not meet contractual targets in (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23; and if she will make an estimate of the total sum that is predicted to be reclaimed by the end of 2023-24 financial year.

Data for expenditure reclaimed for activity in the years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 is available from NHS Business Services Authority. This information is published here: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data/nhs-payments-dentists.

Data for activity in 2022-23 and 2023-24 will be published in due course.