Found: In my own area, Kent, there has historically been significant growth in provision in coastal communities—that

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether dentists working in dental treatment vans will be offered one-off payments of up to £20,000.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

We will offer Golden Hellos of £20,000 to up to 240 dentists who join existing National Health Service practices, in areas where recruitment is particularly challenging. Golden Hello payments will be phased over three years, and require a commitment to stay in that area delivering NHS work for at least three years.

We will also be deploying dental vans offering appointments to patients in need, including targeted rural and coastal communities who have the most limited access to dentistry, starting later this year. We are working with NHS England and the integrated care boards on the precise nature of the contracting and payment model for dental vans.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to prohibit bottom trawling.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Bottom trawls are used by all parts of the fishing fleet, from small day boats to large offshore vessels. In 2021, fishing with bottom towed gears in the UK Exclusive Economic Zone by the UK fleet represented approximately 30% of the total tonnage, by value this was 45%. The economic importance to coastal communities varies, but there are significant trawler fleets in the South West of England. There is currently no commercially viable replacement for bottom trawling to catch the high-value species targeted (e.g. cod, haddock, scallops). There is work underway to progressively address the environmental effects of bottom trawling, working alongside the fishing industry, academia, and other stakeholders including through Fisheries Management Plans, the first of which were published in December 2024. The issue needs to be approached carefully to ensure the environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability are balanced.

Found: backing the British fishing industry, delivering a healthy marine environment and supporting prosperous coastal

Found: existing fishermen on vessels of 10 metres and under following widespread support from fishermen and coastal

Found: They also support our coastal communities by acting as natural flood defences, and capture and store

Found: existing fishermen on vessels of 10 metres and under following widespread support from fishermen and coastal

Found: Council and Environment Agency commit to approach for long-term defence of coastal communities.

Found: One of these outcomes aims to capture benefits to wider coastal communities, and includes the following

Found: amount has been passed directly to Marine for onward distribution to Local Government to reflect the Coastal

Found: will continue to work closely with partners in both Deals to develop these projects to the benefit of coastal

Found: • retaining value within coastal communities.

Found: communities • Investing in infrastructure and development, keeping rural schools op en, empowering coastal

Found: communities • Investing in infrastructure and development, keeping rural schools op en, empowering coastal