PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dental Services: Pregnancy (23 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) pregnant women and (b) new mothers receiving free dental treatment on the NHS (i) nationally and (ii) by region.

Asked by:
Alice Macdonald (Labour)

Pregnant women and new mothers are entitled to free National Health Service dental care. The following table shows the total number of Courses of Treatment delivered nationally to new mothers and pregnant women over the last five years:

Patient type	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24
Expectant mother	304,536	104,659	204,229	215,528	211,935
Mother of child born in the year before treatment started	471,033	144,737	289,624	330,000	321,718

Source: 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-202324

We do not hold data for each region.

Answered by:
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
1 November 2024