Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress her Department has made on an NHS Dental Plan; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of such a plan on the provision of NHS dental services in (a) Pocklington, (b) Driffield, and (c) Bridlington in the next 12 months.

We will be publishing our Dentistry Recovery Plan shortly which will address how we continue to improve access for patients and how we make National Health Service work more attractive to ensure NHS dentists are incentivised to deliver more NHS care across England.

Since 1 April 2023 responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to all integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. ICBs are responsible for having local processes in place to identify areas of need and determine the priorities for investment.