Question follow-through · 9869
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department issues guidance to integrated care boards on agreeing bespoke contractual arrangements with dental practices for NHS dental provision.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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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
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department issues guidance to integrated care boards on agreeing bespoke contractual arrangements with dental practices for NHS dental provision.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2024
Answer published
Since 1 April 2023, responsibility for commissioning primary care, including dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. Dental contracts are underpinned by the nationally de...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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