Question follow-through · 22172
Dental Services: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the planned additional 700,000 urgent dental appointments a year will be in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) the East of England.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the planned additional 700,000 urgent dental appointments a year will be in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) the East of England.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 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 patients can start to access 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments as soon as possible, targeting ar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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