Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 12 January 2022 to Question 102658, how much money NHS England clawed back from primary care NHS dental practices in England that had not met their contractual targets in each year since the 2020-21 financial year.

The NHS Business Services Authority publishes the details of each National Health Service dental contract with the associated contract delivery data annually. This information includes additional NHS dental payments and deductions each year since 2015. Deductions to this amount include where a dentist does not deliver the contracted amount of NHS dental care. Performance adjustments each year relate to the performance in the previous financial year, for example, performance adjustments in 2023/24 relate to contract performance in 2022/23.

The publications are available at the following link: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data/nhs-payments-dentists