Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered dentists were treating patients in (a) South Holland and (b) South Kesteven local authority areas in each year since 2015.

Data is not held on the number of registered dentists who have treated patients. We have provided data on the number of dentists who delivered National Health Service care in the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the ICB for the South Holland and South Kesteven local authority areas. The following table shows the number of dentists who delivered some NHS dental care each year in Lincolnshire ICB, from 2015/16 to 2023/24:

Source: the latest figures are published by the NHS Business Services Authority, and the figures prior to 2023/24 were published by NHS Digital, with further information on both available, respectively, at the following two links:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics

Note: figures before 2019 are not directly comparable.