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HANSARD Access to Dental Services: West SussexWe will be publishing the data on the golden hellos in August, along with all the other data. There is a time lag from the end of the financial year to when we have collated all…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Access to Dental Services: West SussexIt is a real pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I thank the hon. Member for Chichester (Jess Brown-Fuller) for securing this important debate and I am…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Access to Dental Services: West SussexI am so delighted that the hon. Lady intervened, as I was about to come to that. We have reduced the underspend—one of the many utterly shocking things I found across my portfolio…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Access to Dental Services: West SussexI strongly echo the hon. Lady’s congratulations to Chichester college. Of course, technicians, nurses and therapists play a crucial role; dentists’ practices function not just…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Access to Dental Services: West SussexYes, but before the hon. Lady intervenes, I will say that I am fully aware that Portsmouth is in Hampshire, so I ask her not to give me a deluge of letters from her constituents.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Access to Dental Services: West SussexWe clearly need to check our GPS on that one. I understand that there are challenges, but the point is that, for the first time in decades, Chichester has a school in its vicinity…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDNHS DentistryI congratulate the hon. Members for Yeovil (Adam Dance), for Waveney Valley (Adrian Ramsay) and for Farnham and Bordon (Gregory Stafford) on securing this important debate. When…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDNHS DentistrySomerset is an outlier. There are significant problems in Somerset due to access to dentistry, for all the reasons we have talked about in this debate, which are particularly…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDNHS Dentistryindicated dissent.15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDNHS DentistryI thank the hon. Member for that. As I have said, the contract will be reformed within this Parliament. I would be happy to receive a letter or representations from him with a…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDNHS DentistryI suspect that the entire country blames the situation far more on the 14 years of neglect and incompetence from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. We are absolutely…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDNHS DentistryIt is because we have to work out, particularly with employment lawyers, exactly how the modalities of a three-year tie-in would work. It does impinge on employment law, so…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDPrimary Care: Non-digital AccessOnce again, my hon. Friend has done a great job promoting Harlow, as we are all familiar with him doing in the House. We are improving GP access across the board. We have over…09 Jun 2026HANSARDDental Recruitment Incentive SchemeI thank the hon. Lady for that question, and she is absolutely right to raise the issue of the contract. The fundamental problem is that the units of dental activity system is a…09 Jun 2026HANSARDMental Health Facilities: DorsetMy hon. Friend is right that his constituents will be able to access care at the new facilities in Poole and Bournemouth thanks to the Government’s investment in the new hospitals…09 Jun 2026HANSARDDental Recruitment Incentive SchemeThis Government are rebuilding England’s broken NHS dentistry system. The dental recruitment incentive scheme encourages dentists to work in underserved areas. Data on the…09 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am delighted that my hon. Friend has submitted that expression of interest. We are now assessing proposals against criteria that include: a fit with our national neighbourhood…09 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that unpaid carers are the lifeblood of our care system, and we pay tribute to them for the compassion that they show. I was very pleased…09 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have said to hon. Members across the House today, there is a fundamental challenge around the dental contract. Units of dental activity do not work as a way of incentivising…09 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsImportantly, we have the £102 million utilisation and modernisation fund to enable more GP primary care estate. We have also committed to delivering 120 more neighbourhood health…09 Jun 2026