Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2017 to Question 66939, on dental services: children, if he will provide the information in that Answer disaggregated for primary and secondary NHS dentistry care.

The information provided in answer to Question 66939 on patients seen by National Health Service dentists relates to primary care only so cannot be disaggregated into primary and secondary care. ’Patients seen’ counts the number of unique patients who received one or more NHS courses of treatment within primary care by a dentist in a specified period. This information cannot be provided for secondary care. Secondary care data, for dental and other specialties, does not routinely report on the unique patients seen but rather the number of admissions or treatments delivered within the secondary care setting.