The petition, which more than 2,600 residents signed, calls on the government to increase training places for new dentists, reform NHS dental contracts and make it easier to recruit experienced dentists to fill dental vacancies in rural areas.
Tim also spoke in a Parliamentary debate about access to dentistry, where he raised the latest figures, which show that the proportion of children in Cumbria seen by a dentist in the NHS each year went from 64 per cent in 2018 to just 50 per cent last year.
Tim said, “Half of our children in our communities - from Grasmere to Grange, Appleby to Ambleside, Kendal to Kirkby Stephen and Windermere to Warcop - do not have access to an NHS dentist. That is a disgrace.
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