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Dental Health: Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department applied to define deprived areas for the provision of free dental products in early years settings in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
16 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department applied to define deprived areas for the provision of free dental products in early years settings in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    National supervised toothbrushing programme funding and free dental products are based on the Office for National Statistics’ Indices of Multiple Deprivation mid-2020 population estimates. These were used to identify the number of three to five-year-olds ...

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