Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the model of York and Hull Medical School being used as a model for a future dental school across Yorkshire and Humber; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) dentists and (b) allied dental professions in training to meet future demand.

We continue to monitor the number and location of training places for dentistry and the allied dental professions, to ensure that the National Health Service has the appropriate staff in these professions to meet future demand. We currently have no plans for a new dental school in Yorkshire and the Humber and no specific assessment of the Universities of Hull and York Medical School has been made.