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NHS Deficits

One group of people who are queuing up at the surgeries of every right hon. and hon. Member in the Chamber are those with concerns about NHS dentistry. Before my local primary care trust was absorbed into a larger, sub-regional NHS primary care trust, it had some £10 million allocated to dentistry-related activity, yet 10,000 people in my constituency are on a waiting list for NHS dentistry, because all that money has been siphoned off and sent somewhere else to try to limit deficits. Money is transferred between organisations so that we can try to make sure that we mask the problems, and that has a huge effect. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Paul Farrelly) says that the money is ring-fenced, but the reality is that it is not, because it is going elsewhere.