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 estimate of the number of children that visited a dentist in (a) Halton, (b) the North West, (c) England and (d) the UK in the last (i) three, (ii) six, (iii) 12 and (iv) 24 months.

State funded healthcare outside of England is a devolved matter and the responsibility respectively of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Governments and for which we do not hold data.

NHS Digital publishes Dental Statistics, which is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics

The following tables provide the published information on the number of National Health Service dentists, and adults and children seen by an NHS dentist in each of the requested areas of England for the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 financial years. Data for 2022/2023 is not yet published and therefore no assessment has been made on the adequacy of NHS dentistry provisions in Halton during the last calendar year.

Table one: Dentists per 100,000 population in Halton and England

Table two: Number of adults seen in the last 24 months

Table three: Number of children seen in the last 12 months at June 2022 and June 2021