Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the amount of money clawed back by NHS England from primary care NHS dental practices in England that had not met their contractual targets in each year since the 2020-21 financial year.

The NHS Business Services Authority publishes the details of each National Health Service dental contract, with associated contract delivery data, annually. This information includes additional NHS dental payments and deductions each year since 2015. NHS England contracts with dentists to deliver NHS dental services, with the amount of NHS dental care to deliver and financial value specified in each contract. Deductions to this amount include where a dentist does not deliver the contracted amount of NHS dental care. These publications are available at the following link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data/nhs-payments-dentists