Question follow-through · 57515
Dental Services: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider the potential merits of allocating funding for the (a) building of and (b) supplying of specialised equipment to new, purpose-built dental practices.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 12 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
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider the potential merits of allocating funding for the (a) building of and (b) supplying of specialised equipment to new, purpose-built dental practices.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards across England.The NHS contracts with independent dental pr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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