Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have been hospitalised needing treatment for dental decay in (a) Bolsover constituency, (b) Derbyshire and (c) England in each of the last five years.

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) publishes annual official statistics on tooth extractions in zero- to 19-year-olds that take place in a National Health Service hospital setting in England. The following table shows the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) for tooth extraction with dental caries, also known as tooth decay, as the primary diagnosis code between the 2019/20 and 2023/24 financial years, for children aged zero to 19 years old in England, in the Derbyshire upper tier local authority, and in the Bolsover lower tier local authority:

Source: the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ annual statistics on tooth extractions zero to 19 year olds that take place in an NHS hospital setting in England, available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hospital-based-tooth-extractions-in-0-to-19-year-olds

Notes:

1. the information requested is not available for Bolsover constituency, as OHID does not publish data at constituency level;
2. Derbyshire refers to the Derbyshire upper tier local authority, the Derbyshire County Council;
3. Bolsover refers to Bolsover lower tier local authority, the Bolsover District Council, not the Bolsover constituency;
4. England’s total FCE counts are unrounded and include activity with invalid or missing region and local authority codes;
5. All sub-national FCE counts are rounded to the nearest five as per NHS Digital’s disclosure controls;
6. figures show the number of FCEs, not the number of individual children who received these treatments, and therefore one child may have had more than one FCE; and
7. a quality note on the data is available at the following link:
   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/analysis-of-tooth-extractions-in-hospital-methods-and-data-quality/data-quality-and-disclosure-control-for-hospital-based-tooth-extraction-data