Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS dental contracts (a) terminated or (b) handed back in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20, (iii) 2020-21 and (iv) 2021-22 to date have been recommissioned.

In 2021/22, there were 55 contract terminations in England at the request of contractor, for reasons including retirement, ill-health and business decisions to cease National Health Service provision. Information on contract terminations prior to 2021/22 is not held centrally. The information requested on the proportion of contracts or units of dental activity (UDAs) which have been recommissioned is not held centrally.

There is no UDA rate recorded within contracts, as a contract can include a number of different activity and quality measures. Therefore, there is no average UDA value for NHS contracts in England nor an average for NHS dental contracts in England which were terminated or handed back.