§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the provision of NHS dental services in North Yorkshire. [169970]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson49.9 per cent. of adults and 68.2 per cent. of children in North Yorkshire were registered with a National Health Service dentist at the end of February 2004. There has been very little change in these numbers over the previous 12 months. There were 248 dentists treating NHS patients in north Yorkshire at the end of 2003.