Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce a statutory right of patients to be registered as an NHS patient of a dentist.

We have no immediate plans to introduce a statutory right for patients to be registered as a National Health Service patient. The Government will tackle the immediate crisis with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments, and to recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most.