Question follow-through · 72615

Dentistry: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing Dental Therapist/Hygienist roles from the Skilled Worker visa route from 22 July 2025 on NHS dental services.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
16 Sept 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing Dental Therapist/Hygienist roles from the Skilled Worker visa route from 22 July 2025 on NHS dental services.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the Hon Member to the Answer I gave on 16th September to Question 70526.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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