Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people attended an A&E department with a dental issue in each year since 2019.

The Dentistry Recovery Plan will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for patients, and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment.

Our Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services aims to deliver one of the fastest and longest sustained improvements in emergency waiting times. This includes bringing down accident and emergency wait times for 76% of patients being admitted, transferred, or discharged, within four hours by March 2024. Data on how many people attended an accident and emergency department with a dental issue is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-accident--emergency-activity