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Dental Health: Pupils

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward proposals to reintroduce school dental screening.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 17 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 22 Jul 2024
Answer: 23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward proposals to reintroduce school dental screening.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2024
Answer published
There are no plans to reintroduce school dental screenings in England. The UK National Screening Committee does not recommend population screening for dental disease in children aged six to nine years old. Further information is available at the following...

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