Question follow-through · 33358
Dental Services: Cornwall
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of NHS dental capacity in Bude.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of NHS dental capacity in Bude.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
Data on dental activity is available at integrated care board (ICB) level, with statistics available from the NHS Business Services Authority. These are available at the following link, with the most recent statistics for 2023/24 having been published on ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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