Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists provided NHS services by (a) constituency and (b) region in each year between 2015 and 2023.

Dental Statistics is published by NHS Digital and is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics/2021-22-annual-report

The requested data is not available at the constituency level. The attached table summarises the number of dentists providing National Health Service dental services in each region between 2015 and 2022, which is the latest year currently available. A dentist can perform NHS activity in multiple areas of the country throughout the financial year and be counted more than once.