Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the potential merits of establishing NHS dental services in schools.

There are no plans to establish National Health Service dental services in schools in England.

The UK National Screening Committee advised in 2006 that population screening for dental disease in children aged six to nine years old should be discontinued as it was ineffective. Reviews in 2013 and 2019 upheld this recommendation. The latest report is available from the following link:

https://view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/dental-disease/