Oral Question·Foreign and Commonwealth Office
“What steps he is taking with his international counterparts to ban wet markets and butcheries in (a) China and (b) south-east Asia where viruses have crossed the animal-human interface; and if he will make a statement.”
Tabled: 11 March 2020Answered: 17 March 2020
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Mr James Frith)
This Government have been working to rebuild the NHS dental service since we came to office. The latest data shows that 37.6 million courses of dental treatment were delivered last year—nearly 3 million more than at the time of the general election.