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Vol. 796 Tuesday No. 270 12 March 2019 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Questions Children: Oral Health .............................................................................................................................................907 Prisons: Rehabilitation............................................................................................................................................910 Unpaid Internships .................................................................................................................................................912 Fracking: Planning Guidance .................................................................................................................................914 Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2019 Motions to Approve .................................................................................................................................................917 General Food Law (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Contaminants in Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 General Food Hygiene (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Specific Food Hygiene (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Motions to Approve .................................................................................................................................................917 Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill Report .....................................................................................................................................................................918 Withdrawal Agreement: Attorney General’s legal opinion on the Joint Instrument and Unilateral Declaration Statement ................................................................................................................................................................967 Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) Bill Second Reading .......................................................................................................................................................979 Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill Second Reading (and remaining stages) ................................................................................................................1012 Grand Committee Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 163 Aviation Noise (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 173 Aviation Statistics (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 180 Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 185 Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 197 International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Considered in Grand Committee.......................................................................................................................GC 201 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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These are issues that start in childhood and continue into adulthood. Does the Minister agree 2.30 pm that the educational methods proposed for children should be adjusted to be suitable for children with Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Southwark. learning disabilities and extended into adult life, as suggested by the Faculty of Dental Surgery? I welcome the new government guidance that was published last Children: Oral Health week on the oral health needs of children and adults Question with learning disabilities. 2.36 pm Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford: The noble Baroness makes a very important point about ensuring Asked by Baroness Benjamin that dental care is available and accessible to all. To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans Dental commissioning responsibilities are for NHS they have to tackle the oral health problems of hard England, which is responsible for ensuring that dental to reach children, especially those in deprived areas services meet local needs and helping individuals who of the country, through the Starting Well Core are unable to access a dentist. She has raised a very scheme. important point about access for those with learning disabilities and I shall ensure that this is raised within the department. TheParliamentaryUnder-Secretaryof State,Department of Health and Social Care (Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford) (Con): My Lords, Starting Well Core Lord Colwyn (Con): My Lords, we will not reduce allows commissioners, where they identify local need, oral health inequalities if we do not ensure that every to establish schemes similar to the National Starting child is able to get their free NHS dental check-up. Well scheme, which runs in 13 high-need areas. Starting Dentists’ morale is so low that every week NHS dental Well Core has a particular focus on children up to two practices are closing, leaving some patients facing a years old; practices engage with a wide range of partners 90-mile round trip to find a dentist. A recent survey to promote the importance of early preventive care. showed that three in five of all NHS dentists are Areas that have so far introduced the approach include planning to scale down or leave the NHS in the next London,theWestMidlands,ShropshireandStaffordshire, five years. Government funding has fallen in real Cheshire and Merseyside, and Greater Manchester. terms and we are waiting for the rollout of the new dental contract, work on which started eight years ago. Will my noble friend comment on these important Baroness Benjamin (LD): My Lords, too many five changes? Programmes such as Starting Well Core will to 10 year-olds in deprived areas undergo general not able to help any children if there are no NHS anaesthetic in hospitals to have their decayed teeth dentists left to deliver them. I declare my usual interests, removed. Starting Well Core is therefore a welcome which include vice-presidency of the British Fluoridation first step towards ensuring that children are seen by a Society. dentist, preventing them from developing decay at a young age. Unfortunately, this scheme contains no educational element, only posters and leaflets available Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford: I thank my at dental practices, seen by those already attending. noble friend for his question; he is of course very There are no measures to get the hard-to-reach children expert in this area. We want NHS dental services to be through the dentist’s doors. How do the Government attractive for the profession and we remain committed plan to encourage all carers to take their children to to reforming the dental contract, which should help, the dentist, even before their first birthday? Will they but we recognise that there are a range of