PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence: Dental Services (14 March 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many whole-time equivalent dentists are employed by (a) his Department, (b) the armed forces, (c) the Royal Air Force, (d) the British Army and (e) the Royal Navy.

Asked by:
Dr Caroline Johnson (Conservative)

The table below provides the numbers of Dental Officers in the UK Armed Forces, by Service, as at 1 October 2022:

Table 1. Trained/Trade Trained Regular and Trained FR20 Reserve Dental Officers in the UK Armed Forces, by Service, as at 1 October 2022
	Total	Royal Navy	Army	Royal Air Force
Total	180	40	100	40
Regular/Full-Time	140	40	70	30
FR20/Part-Time	40	-	30	10

The above figures are for uniformed military personnel only and have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. It is not possible to provide data for Volunteer Reserves in terms of whole-time equivalency.

The table below provides the numbers of Ministry of Defence Civilian Dental Practitioners by Top Level Budget Holder (TLB) and Headcount and Full Time Equivalence (FTE) as at 1 October 2022:

Table 2: MoD Civilian Dental Practitioners by TLB and Headcount and FTE
01 October 2022
TLB	Headcount	FTE
UK Strat Com	102	86

Answered by:
Dr Andrew Murrison (Conservative)
17 March 2023