Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the unit of dental activity rate for 2025-26; and from what date dentists will receive payments at that rate.

From 1 April 2024, the Department raised the minimum Unit of Dental Activity (UDA) rate to £28 to support practices with historically low UDA rates. Minimum UDA rates are not uplifted annually by the Department, however overall contract values are uplifted annually following the recommendations of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration. Integrated care boards have the flexibility to influence the UDA rate locally, which may help to support local interventions, and there are differential UDA rates across England. Differential UDA rates allow providers to use differing pay rates to reflect local market rates.