PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dental Services: Fines (4 July 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many penalty charge notices for NHS dental treatment have been issued in each year since 2011 as a result of claimants declaring that they were in receipt of income-related Employment Support Allowance.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The following table shows the number of penalty notices issued for National Health Service dental treatment where claimants had declared they were in receipt of income-related Employment Support Allowance in each year from 2011 to 2022.

2011	245
2012	3,627
2013	9,855
2014	29,419
2015	39,333
2016	38,495
2017	42,578
2018	51,598
2019	52,759
2020	1,405
2021	6,090
2022	14,116

Answered by:
James Morris (Conservative)
13 July 2022