Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices in Surrey Heath constituency were accepting new (a) adult and (b) child NHS patients in each year since 2021.

The Find a Dentist website enables users to identify National Health Service dental practices in their area, providing information on services, contact details, and whether practices are accepting new patients, and is available at the link below:

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-dentist/

Data on access to NHS dentistry at a constituency level, including for Surrey Heath, is provided via the House of Commons Library at the link below:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10897/