Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to help with the provision of new NHS dental practices.

New National Health Service dental contracts are commissioned where additional need is identified according to regional budgets or in cases where contracts are handed back. Commissioners work with local stakeholders to identify need in these cases. The Department, NHS England and NHS Improvement and the British Dental Association are working on reforms to the NHS dental contract in order to make the NHS dental offer more attractive for dentists and their teams.