Question follow-through · 72138
Dentistry: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to allocate funding for a dental school in West Dorset to increase the local dental workforce.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 6 Oct 2025 · 38 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to allocate funding for a dental school in West Dorset to increase the local dental workforce.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Oct 2025
Answer published
Tackling the geographical disparities in access to National Health Service dentistry is vital, and the Government welcomes efforts to help deliver this ambition.Government approval or funding is not required to establish a new dental school in West Dorset...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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