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Dental Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support financially disadvantaged people to access private dental services in areas where NHS service are not readily available.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 May 2025
Target answer date
8 May 2025
Answer
13 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support financially disadvantaged people to access private dental services in areas where NHS service are not readily available.

  2. 8 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild den...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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