Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations on increasing the availability of NHS dental (a) practices and (b) other services in all parts of the UK.

State funded healthcare is a devolved matter outside of England, and is the responsibility, respectively, of the Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish administrations. However, governments across the United Kingdom routinely work together to share best practice and to deliver on our common goals for improving patients’ experience of healthcare services, including access to dentistry.