Question follow-through · 25466
Dental Health: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve public oral health education in rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve public oral health education in rural areas.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
In England, local authorities are responsible for assessing the oral health needs, developing oral health strategies, and commissioning oral health improvement programmes for their local area. We have also published evidence-based resources for dental tea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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