Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the NHS to tackle any backlog of dental treatment in (a) Leicestershire and (b) the UK.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have set out guidance that dentists should focus on care that is urgent, care to vulnerable groups and then overdue routine appointments.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned additional clinical sessions across the Midlands region, Leicestershire and Rutland. It will enable participating National HS dental practices to deliver more face-to-face care providing up to two sessions, of three and half hours, at the weekends from January to March this year.