§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what means he has of monitoring whether NHS dental services are achieving national targets in improving dental health in Scotland.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe Government monitor the state of dental health from the results of a range of epidemiological surveys based on the inspection of a sample of individual patients. Annual surveys of child dental health in Scotland are carried out under the Scottish health boards' dental epidemiological programme; five year-old and 12 or 14 year-old children are surveyed in alternate years. In the United Kingdom as a whole 10-yearly surveys of adult and child dental health are carried out by the Office of Population Census and Surveys; the last adult survey was in 1988 and the most recent child survey was in 1993.
194WGrade 1: – £95,051 –
Grade 2: – £65,990 – £79,394
Grade 3: – £56,131 – £66,283