Question follow-through · 36519
Dental Health: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Supervised Toothbrushing Programme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 20 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
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Supervised Toothbrushing Programme.
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Department is investing a total of £11.4 million in 2025/26. This includes £11 million to local authorities in England to implement supervised toothbrushing schemes.£400,000 is being retained nationally to support development of implementation resourc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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