Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged four and under in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry local authority area were admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction due to decay in each of the last two years.

Data is not held on the number of children admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction. Data is held on the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of dental caries and main procedure of tooth extraction. This data is shown in the following table.

Count of FAEs with a primary diagnosis of dental caries and a main procedure of tooth extraction for ages between 0 and 4, within Coventry North East constituency and Coventry local authority area for the financial years between 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

1. A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

2. The data held in HES is a count of hospital attendances, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a NHS hospital on more than one occasion.

3. Data is not shown when numbers are five or less:

*represents 1-5 counts of hospital attendances.