PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dental Services: Emergencies (10 June 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2022 to Question 280, on Dental Services: Emergencies, how many additional urgent care appointments have been delivered in (a) total and (b) each region through the £50 million catch up funding for NHS dentistry announced by the Government in January 2022.

Asked by:
Judith Cummins (Labour)

The data requested is not yet held centrally as dental contract holders submit claims for activity within 60 days. The data is then centrally validated to ensure accuracy. We anticipate the information will be available by the end of July.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
20 June 2022