Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to establish a supervised toothbrushing scheme and what estimate they have made of the number of children that would be covered by such a scheme.

We are committed to introducing a national supervised toothbrushing scheme, targeted at three- to five-year-olds living in the 20% most deprived areas of England. Supervised toothbrushing schemes are implemented on a setting-based approach, rather than an individual children approach. The number of children participating in schemes will be determined by rates of local participation.