Question follow-through · 75961
Dentistry: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to update dental professional healthcare regulation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to update dental professional healthcare regulation.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to modernising the regulatory frameworks for all healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom.As a first step, we aim to consult on secondary legislation to modernise the General Medical Council’s regulatory framework in late...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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