Question follow-through · 5213
Dental Services: Colne Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of dentistry practices that are accepting NHS patients in Colne Valley constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Cancer: Health Services · 11 Sept 2024
- Cancer: Older People · 11 Sept 2024
- Health Services: Disadvantaged · 11 Sept 2024
- Prostate Cancer: Colne Valley · 4 Oct 2024
- Mental Health: Men · 4 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of dentistry practices that are accepting NHS patients in Colne Valley constituency.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2024
Answer published
As of 4 September 2024, there were nine National Health Service dentist practices in the Colne Valley constituency, and none of them were showing as ‘accepting new adult patients when availability allows’. This data is sourced from the Find a Dentist webs...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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