Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of (a) the quality of dental services, (b) the dental workforce and (c) oral health outcomes for (i) children and (ii) adults in the UK and other countries.

No assessment has been made of the quality of dental services or the dental workforce in the United Kingdom and other countries.

Comparative assessments of oral health across the devolved nations were made for children in 2013 and for adults in 2009 in oral health surveys. The devolved nations now undertake separate surveys of oral health.

No comparative assessment of adult or child oral health has been made between the UK and other countries.