Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of student dentistry places.
The NHS Long Term Workforce published on 30 June 2023 contained a commitment to expand dentistry training places by 40% so that there are over 1,100 places by 2031/32, and to support this ambition by expanding places by 24% by 2028/29 so that there are 1,000 places that year.