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Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the unit of dental activity rate for 2025-26; and from what date dentists will receive payments at that rate.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
3 Feb 2025
Answer
3 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the unit of dental activity rate for 2025-26; and from what date dentists will receive payments at that rate.

  2. 3 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 3 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    From 1 April 2024, the Department raised the minimum Unit of Dental Activity (UDA) rate to £28 to support practices with historically low UDA rates. Minimum UDA rates are not uplifted annually by the Department, however overall contract values are uplifte...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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