Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question 195463 on Dental Services: Cornwall, how much of the £4,562,496 recovered from dentists in Cornwall in 2021-22 is (a) available and (b) allocated for financial year 2023-24.

Financial accounting rules do not allow for funding recovered from one financial year (in this case, 2021/22) to be spent in another financial year (in this case, 2023/24). Where a dental contract underperforms in any one year any financial recovery associated with the contractual performance should accrue to the year in which the underperformance takes place.