Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of geographic variations in the rates of Units of Dental Activity for NHS dental contracts.

Variations in rates of Units of Dental Activity (UDA) reflect local markets and the varying costs of delivering National Health Service dental treatment across the country. We have worked with the British Dental Association to establish and implement a minimum UDA value of £23. This will help support practices with historically low UDA rates.