Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of how many and what proportion of NHS dentists that closed in the last 18 months have been replaced.
National Health Service dental activity is replaced through recommissioning of services. The most recent data is available to September 2020. Of the 77 contracts terminated or handed back between January and September 2020, 41 contracts have been recommissioned or approximately 60%.