Question follow-through · 28043
Dental Services: Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing subsidised dental care for patients undergoing chemotherapy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing subsidised dental care for patients undergoing chemotherapy.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises that patients with a cancer diagnosis can have specific dental needs. Free National Health Service dental care is available to people who meet the following criteria:- under 18 years old, or under 19 years old and in full-time ed...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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