Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what range of dental treatment was available on the NHS free of charge for people on low incomes in each of the last seven years.

Dentists delivering National Health Service primary care dental treatment are required to provide all treatment that is clinically necessary to a patient regardless of whether the patient is exempt from dental charges or a fee payer. The NHS makes no distinction in treatment offered between these two groups. Dentists collect charges, where applicable, on behalf of the NHS. They pass these charges raised on to the NHS, they do not retain them.