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date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress has been made on increasing access to NHS dentistry.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Chief Dental Officer for England to increase levels of service, as fast as is safely possible. On 29 March we announced that the threshold for full National Health Service contractual payment would be raised to 60% of normal activity, whilst keeping in place income protection for practices where infection control is particularly challenging. We continue to explore what more can be done to increase capacity including piloting pre-appointment testing.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/03/2021 15:46:50 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1305251

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices are open to new (a) adult and (b) child NHS patients in (i) Bolton and (ii) England as at 23 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	174074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>Over 6,000 National Health Service dental practices in England have been able to see patients face to face since 8 June 2020.</p><p>In Bolton there are currently 30 NHS dental practices, of which six are operating as urgent dental providers, receiving referrals for any patients who require urgent treatment as well as referrals for looked after children.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/03/2021 15:24:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi