Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 27030, what steps he has taken to consider how NHS England can ensure better access to dentistry for cancer patients.

National Health Service dentistry is a universal NHS service. This should be available to all including those diagnosed with cancer or any other disease. Where a patient has difficulty in finding an NHS dentist with availability they should contact NHS England and NHS Improvement who commission dentistry and have a duty to help patients who are having difficulty in finding a practice.