Terry Jermy

Terry Jermy

Labour — South West Norfolk

Speaking in the House of Commons on 19 June 2025

Debate

Business of the House

Contribution

The Health Secretary has rightly described Norfolk as “the Sahara of dental deserts”—[Official Report, 23 July 2024; Vol. 752, c. 506.] I very much welcome the 700,000 extra dentistry appointments since Labour took office, as well as the money for supervised toothbrushing, but East Anglia is the only region of England without a dental school, and consequently it struggles to recruit and retain dentists. Would the Leader of the House support a general debate on dental care so that we can discuss funding for dentistry schools, and what more can be done to improve access to dentistry across the UK?

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