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Dentistry: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the establishment of a dental school at the University of East Anglia.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 16 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 19 Jun 2025
Answer: 19 Sept 2025 · 95 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the establishment of a dental school at the University of East Anglia.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
We would like to congratulate the University of East Anglia on its newly awarded dental school status and its ambitions to train the future dentistry workforce. Tackling the geographical disparities in access to National Health Service dentistry is vital,...

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