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1696312

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Oral Statement of 7 February 2024 on NHS Dentistry: Recovery and Reform, Official Report, columns 251-253, which areas will be included in the first cohort to offer golden hello payments to dentists.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	18811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>To support practices in areas where recruitment is particularly challenging, we will launch a new Golden Hello scheme. We will implement schemes working with integrated care boards that are struggling to recover their activity levels, and would significantly benefit. A Golden Hello of £20,000 will be offered per dentist for up to 240 dentists. Payments will be phased over three years, requiring a commitment from the dentist to stay in that area delivering National Health Service work for at least three years. We will decide on locations in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/03/2024 16:22:32 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1694906

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of underspend was for dentistry in each integrated care board in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	17896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>We currently invest more than £3 billion in National Health Service dental services each year. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes, and will ringfence this funding in 2024 to 2025. We will issue guidance to the integrated care boards (ICBs) shortly, through NHS England’s 2024 to 2025 revenue finance and contracting guidance. To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to NHS dental care, NHS England will meet with, and collect monthly returns from, all ICBs, to establish current and planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget. Data is not held centrally for dental budgets in prior years.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 14/03/2024 13:48:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1692346

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanism she plans to use to ringfence NHS dentistry budgets in financial year 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	16179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>We currently invest more than £3 billion in National Health Service dental services each year. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes and we will ringfence this funding in 2024 to 2025. We will issue guidance to integrated care boards (ICBs) shortly through NHS England’s 2024 to 2025 revenue finance and contracting guidance. To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to NHS dental care, NHS England will meet with and collect monthly returns from all ICBs to establish current and planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/03/2024 16:39:41 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21242 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1690079

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a breakdown of the costings of each element of the dentistry recovery plan; and whether funding will be delivered from existing underspends by ICBs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	14670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The Dentistry Recovery Plan is fully-funded with £200 million and will deliver new initiatives to address the challenges facing National Health Service dentistry, including an extra 2.5 million appointments.</p><p>Overall NHS spending totals will be set at Budget in the usual way. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes and we will ringfence this funding in 2024 to 2025. We will issue guidance to integrated care boards shortly through NHS England’s 2024 to 2025 revenue finance and contracting guidance.</p><p>The Plan sets out the following funding commitments for actions: Golden Hellos of £20,000 to be offered per dentist, for up to 240 dentists over three years; a new patient premium, set at either £50 or £15 depending on the treatment required; an increase of the minimum unit of dental activity value to £28; and Government investment of an additional £300 million to enable 75 upper-tier local authorities to create more Family Hubs, and to improve vital services including oral health support to give every baby the best start in life.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/02/2024 18:56:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 18769 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1690236

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the estimate from the British Dental Association that only 700 of approximately 8000 NHS contract holders in England will benefit from the increase in payment per unit of dental activity.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL2564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>On 7 February 2024, we published <em>Our Plan to Recover and Reform NHS Dentistry</em>. The Dentistry Recovery Plan will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for patients and will fund around 2.5 million additional appointments or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment.</p><p>Units of dental activity (UDA) rates vary around the country but in recognition of the fact that where rates are lowest it is harder for dentists to sustain their National Health Service work, we announced in <em>Our Plan to Recover and Reform NHS Dentistry</em> that we will raise the minimum UDA value to £28. This will mean that almost 1,000 contracts will see an uplift to their UDA rate this year, supporting them and making treatment of NHS patients more sustainable. We have also developed guidance to support local commissioning by integrated care boards, including how they can consider addressing UDA rates locally to support better delivery of dental care for patients. The plan also includes a number of other commitments to make NHS dentistry more attractive and sustainable, including new patient payments and Golden Hellos.</p><p>We are developing further recommendations for dental contract reform to properly reflect the care needed by different patients, and to remunerate practices more fairly. We expect to develop options for consultation with the dental profession in advance of a further announcement later this year. Any changes would be phased in from 2025 onwards.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 29/02/2024 12:59:45 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1687348

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the gross annual budget was for NHS dental services before deductions for (a) underspends and (b) underperformance for each year from 2010-11 to the latest year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	13010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2024 answer text <p>Whilst data for dental budgets in prior years is not held centrally, we currently invest more than £3 billion in National Health Service dental services each year. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes, and will ringfence the funding in 2024/25. We will issue guidance to integrated care boards (ICBs) shortly, through NHS England’s 2024/25 revenue finance and contracting guidance. To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to NHS dental care, NHS England will meet with and collect monthly returns from all ICBs, to establish current and planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 20/02/2024 10:52:41 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 16713 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1685479

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make (a) an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing NHS dentistry funding and (b) an estimate of the potential impact of such ringfencing on the NHS budget.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	11855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>National Health Service dentistry receives £3 billion of funding each year. We want to protect dental resources for dental care and prioritise access for patients, and have taken action, starting with our contract changes announced in July 2022 to ensure that the full dental budget made available each year is spent on delivering dental care.</p><p>From 1 April 2023, the responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to integrated care boards (ICBs) across England, along with the transfer of all funding. ICBs are responsible for having local processes in place to involve patient groups, and for undertaking oral health needs assessments, to identify areas of need and determine the priorities for investment.</p><p>NHS England provided guidance for the ICBs that requires dental allocations to be ringfenced in 2023/24, with any unused resources being re-directed to improve NHS dental access in the first instance, rather than being spent on other services. In November 2023, NHS England confirmed that where ICBs had not spent all of their allocation on improving access to dentistry, they would be able to retain any underspend and use this to balance their bottom line and any other pressures. ICBs will decide how to use any forecast underspend in line with this guidance. We are currently considering arrangements for 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 05/02/2024 17:19:14 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1671712

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department's expected timescales are for integrated care boards to report on how much of their dental funding allocation they have used in the 2023-24 financial year; what estimate her Department has made of how much of the total allocation (a) has been and (b) is forecast to be spent on (i) other priorities and (ii) returned to NHS England; and if she will make it her policy to rollover any underspend in the primary dentistry budget to create more NHS dental appointments.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve dental access in the National Health Service in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</a></p><p>ICBs report their expenditure against the dental ringfence to NHS England as part of in-year financial reporting. Data for the 2023/24 financial year will be available after the end of the current financial year. NHS England’s finance business rules set out the approach to managing prior year under and overspends. The latest business rules are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/icb-and-system-finance-business-rules/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/icb-and-system-finance-business-rules/</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/11/2023 17:18:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1669215

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 13 September 2023 to Question 198352 on Dental Services: Cornwall, how funding recovered from NHS dentists may be spent by his Department.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve National Health Service dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:10:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 1081 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1641861

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any provision exists within the present NHS dentistry contract for extra payments to be made for each Unit of Dental Activity in areas where those Units cost more to deliver because of higher than average property lease costs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	187760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2023 answer text <p>Integrated care boards (ICBs) have flexibility to work with contractors within the bounds of the current contractual framework as set out in the current General Dental Service contract and Personal Dental Service agreement regulations.</p><p>At its discretion, an ICB may choose to negotiate with a contractor to decrease or increase the indicative Unit of Dental Activity rate of their contract, Negotiated Annual Contract Value.</p><p>Any variation should be for reasonable and appropriate circumstances only and demonstrate value for money and improve access for patients.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 13/06/2023 11:42:01 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell