Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were on waiting lists to be registered with NHS dentists in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England in each year since 2008.

The data on waiting lists to see a dentist in England is not held centrally. Some practices may hold waiting lists for patients wanting to access a National Health Service dentist, but these will be held at practice level. However, since 2010, the Dental Statistics from the GP Patient Survey provide information on the number of people who tried to make an appointment with an NHS dentist in the previous two years and said they had been successful. The information can be found in the attached table.