Question follow-through · 21499
Dental Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to deliver 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments each year.
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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
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to deliver 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments each year.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care. We are working to ensure that patients can start to access 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments as soon as possible, targeti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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