Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS appointments were carried out by dentists in each year since 2019.

National Health Service dentistry activity is measured by the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) commissioned and delivered, and by the number of courses of treatment delivered. Data on the number of UDAs commissioned and delivered is published each month on the NHS Business Services Authority Open Data Portal, which is available at the following link:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-contractor-monthly-general-dental-activity.

The portal currently holds data from April to November 2023, and data for previous years will be published shortly. Data on the number of courses of treatment delivered in 2022/23 and in previous years is published by NHS Digital, and is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics