Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dentists were employed in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.

The data for how many NHS dentists were employed in each of the last ten years in Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board, which includes South Holland and The Deepings constituency, is published annually. The latest 2024/25 data is published by the NHS Business Services Authority and is available at the following link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202425

Figures prior to 2019/20 were published by NHS Digital and are available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics

We do not hold data on how many NHS dentists are employed at constituency level.