asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what the number of schoolchildren per school dental officer is in the Leek parliamentary constituency, in Staffordshire, and in England and Wales.

I have been asked to reply.On the basis of the latest available figures: for England and Wales, 6,087 schoolchildren per dental officer in the school and priority dental services; for Staffordshire, 7,642. Information is not available in respect of parliamentary constituencies.