Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of Government funding to improve access to NHS Dental Care Services; and whether his Department has plans to announce additional funding in 2022.

No specific assessment has yet been made as data on the additional funding is not currently held centrally. We expect this information to be available shortly. There are no plans to announce additional funding for National Health Service dentistry in 2022 further to the £3 billion committed by NHS England each year.

We will shortly announce a range of measures to improve the NHS dental system to increase access, target care towards patients with higher oral care needs and reward dentists more fairly for the care they deliver. These improvements have been developed with the sector and the British Dental Association. Since July 2022, NHS England has asked practices to deliver 100% of contracted units of dental activity and 100% of units of orthodontic activity to safely improve access for patients.