Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the funding arrangements for new pre-registration dental hygiene and dental therapy students starting courses on or after 1 August 2018.

The department are working with the Department of Health and relevant delivery partners to finalise the funding arrangements for new pre-registration dental hygiene and dental therapy students starting courses on or after 1 August 2018.

We will confirm the funding arrangements in due course.