Dentistry: Expenditure

(asked on 27th January 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Wes Streeting Portrait
Wes Streeting
(Labour - Ilford North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total spend was on NHS dentistry in England in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 6th February 2023

The total spend figures for National Health Service dentistry in England in each of the last five years are shown in the table below.

Financial Year

Total Income from Patient Charges £’000

Central Funding

Total Funding (central funding plus income from patient charges)*

2017/18

807,333

2,004,236

2,811,569

2018/19

856,384

1,932,110

2,788,494

2019/20

848,292

2,109,970

2,958,262

2020/21

277,665

2,753,444

3,031,109

2021/22

633,847

2,423,143

3,056,990

*These figures are drawn from the Department of Health and Social Care’s Annual Reports. The latest report is available at the following link (see page 246, Table 37):

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1132433/dhsc-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-2022-web-accessible.pdf

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