WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 3818

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry, published on 7 February 2024, whether he plans to continue the Smi

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
5 Sept 2024
Answer
5 Sept 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Health and care

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry, published on 7 February 2024, whether he plans to continue the Smi

  2. 5 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    We are currently reviewing the policy paper, including proposals for a Smile for Life programme, and what elements can be taken forward effectively. We will implement our Dental Rescue Plan and prioritise initiatives that will see the biggest impact on ac...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dementia

3 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a dementia strategy.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Health Centres

3 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral answer of 23 July 2024 from the Minister for Secondary Care, Official Report, column 510, whether he plans to announce further steps on the delivery of neighbourhood heal

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Children

5 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the previous Government's commitment to deliver fluoride varnish treatments to more than 165,000 children in under-served areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Neighbourhood Health Centres

5 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of opening each trial neighbourhood health centre.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Public Consultation

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the procurement process was to award contracts for the Change NHS online portal.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Public Consultation

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Change NHS online portal, what the total cost to the public purse is of contracts issued to (a) Thinks Insight & Strategy, (b) Kaleidoscope Health and Care and (c) The Institu

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Public Consultation

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) Departmental officials had in the awarding of contracts to the organisations running the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Public Consultation

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total budget is for the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public engagement campaign; and what time period this funding will cover.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Public Consultation

23 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is using (a) artificial intelligence and (b) a third-party organisation to assess responses to the consultation entitled Change NHS: A health service fit for the future, publ

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department of Health and Social Care: Institute for Public Policy Research

30 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10785 on Department of Health and Social Care: Institute for Public Policy Research, whether NHS England has awarded any contracts to the IPPR

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Diabetes: Medical Equipment

12 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure alignment of Integrated Care Boards with NICE guideline 28, updated in 2022, related to the fair and equitable adoption of continuous glucose monitoring for eligib