Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments, published on 21 February 2025, if he will list the number of additional urgent dental appointments that will be made available in each Integrated Care Board area.

We will deliver 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments per year, and have already requested that integrated care boards (ICBs) start making extra appointments available from April 2025. NHS England issued a letter to the ICBs to start the rollout of the 700,000 urgent dental appointments. The letter provides specific targets for each ICB and the number of additional appointments they are expected to deliver, with further information available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/arrangements-for-nhs-urgent-primary-dental-care-during-2025-26-and-confirmation-of-the-closure-of-the-new-patient-premium-scheme/#annex-a-distribution-of-700k-additional-appointments