§ Mr. ShersbyTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost to public funds of preventive dental health programmes in Scotland for the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythPreventive dental health programmes are the responsibility of individual health boards. Information on their expenditure on such programmes is not held centrally.
At national level, the Scottish health education group (now the Health Education Board for Scotland) spent £5,700 in the financial year 1990–91 on dental health education.