Dental Services: St Albans
Health
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Anne Main (St Albans, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on NHS general dental services in St. Albans in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each of the last five years.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
Information is not available in the format requested.
However, expenditure on primary dental care services in West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) 2006-07 to 2008-09 is as follows:
| £000 | ||||
| Financial year | Expenditure type | Gross expenditure | Dental charges paid by patients | Net expenditure |
| 2006-07 | actual | 24,697 | 4,889 | 19,808 |
| At 2008-09 prices | 26,034 | 5,154 | 20,880 | |
| 2007-08 | actual | 26,307 | 5,755 | 20,552 |
| At 2008-09 prices | 26,952 | 5,896 | 21,056 | |
| 2008-09 | actual | 30,813 | 5,352 | 25,461 |
| Notes: 1. As the data reflects the contract framework for primary dental care services introduced from 1 April 2006, it includes all relevant service costs, and is based on the PCT areas introduced from 1 October 2006, it is not directly comparable with the available pre-2006 data. 2. Actual expenditure figures have been converted into 2008-09 prices using the gross domestic product deflator index as at 29 September 2009. Source: Calculated from details of gross primary dental care expenditure, and income from dental charges, recorded in the notes to the PCT's accounts. | ||||