Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Dental recruitment incentive scheme 2024/25 published on 10 May 2024, how many NHS dentists have been recruited on the Golden Hello pathway in each (a) region and (b) ICB area.

The dentistry recovery plan, Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry, published on 7 February 2024, included a Golden Hello scheme offering up to 240 dentists a cash incentive to deliver National Health Service work in under-served areas of the country, for three years. The scheme is under way, and integrated care boards are working with practices in their areas to agree the list of practices to participate in the scheme, and to recruit dentists to these posts. No dentists have been recruited to these roles yet.