Request

The cost of NHS dental procedures in each band, between now and when records began (please break this down by year/when changes to pricings were made, for each band respectively, and give the cost for each band at every change)

Your request was received on 13 October 2022 and has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Response

In accordance with section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is published and available to you via the following links –

• England - https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics

• Wales - https://gov.wales/nhs-dental-services

As we are applying an exemption to the information requested, please accept this letter as a refusal notice issued in accordance with section 17 of this Act.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-27760

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