Dental Services: Hertfordshire

Anne Main
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his estimate is of the ratio of NHS dentists to residents in (a) St. Albans and (b) Hertfordshire; and if he will make a statement.

Ann Keen
Information is not available in the format requested.

Information on national health service dentists per 100,000 of the population is available in Table G1 of Annex 3 of the NHS Dental Statistics for England: 2007-08 report. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements and is provided by primary care trust and strategic health authority covering the years ending 31 March, 2007 and 2008. This information is not available at constituency level.

This report, published on 21 August 2008, has already been placed in the Library. It is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dental0708