HC Deb 01 March 1999 vol 326 cc578-9W
Mr. Jim Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to increase the number of NHS dentists. [73204]

Mr. Denham

The investing in dentistry (IID) initiative, which we launched in September 1997 is designed to help improve access to National Health Service dentistry. IID provides grants to enable dentists to expand existing practices or to set up new ones in those areas of the country where the provision of NHS dental services is inadequate and oral health inequalities are most acute.

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