Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Plan for Patients will include plans for (a) Centres for Dental Development and (b) the commissioning of new dental schools.

‘Our plan for patients’ aligns with the NHS Long Term Plan and the forthcoming workforce plan and includes the current work on improving the National Health Service dental system. Centres for Dental Development and dental schools are included in Health Education England’s ‘Advancing Dental Care’ report. ‘Our plan for patients’ does not include decisions regarding Centres for Dental Development or the commissioning of new dental schools nationally. Discussions regarding Centres for Dental Development are encouraged locally with integrated care boards.