Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have received NHS dental treatment in each year from 2010 to 2020; and how many dental practices have provided NHS dental treatment in each year from 2010 to 2020.
The number of patients seen by a National Health Service dentist in England from 2010 to 2020 and the number of dental practices in England from 2014 - to 2020 is shown in the attached table. Data on the number of dental practices in England is only available from 2014.