Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s proposed plans to improve access to NHS Dental Care Services, whether he will collect information on the number of dental patients registered with NHS practices in order to measure the progress on this matter.

We have no such plans to do so as there is no requirement for continuous registration of National Health Service dental patients.

We are working with the sector and the British Dental Association on improvements to the NHS dental system to improve access, which will be available in due course.