Question follow-through · 55386
Dental Services: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of available NHS dental appointments in Ashfield constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of available NHS dental appointments in Ashfield constituency.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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