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 ensure the availability of NHS dental services for children.

We are working with NHS England to implement improvements to the National Health Service dentistry contract through measures agreed with the British Dental Association and set out in ‘Our plan for patients’ in September. These will improve access to NHS dentistry, including for children, whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dentists and their teams.