Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental undergraduate training places will be available to students in England in each academic year between 2024-25 and 2031-32.

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan published on 30 June 2023 sets out an ambition to expand dentistry training places by 40% so that there are over 1,100 places by 2031/32. Details of this can be found at the following link on page 130:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-long-term-workforce-plan-2/