Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of emergency and out of hours NHS dental cover in the (a) Shipley constituency and (b) Bradford district.

NHS England is responsible for commissioning National Health Service dental services to meet local need and helping patients find emergency and out of hours NHS dental services. NHS England advises it has taken steps to replace an existing contract to provide urgent and out of hours dental care in Bradford. This contract ended on 31 March. NHS England has put in place a new provider for urgent dental care and work is in hand to see if other local dentists can be funded to also offer additional urgent care.