Question follow-through · 81679
Dental Services: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on (a) communications and (b) public advertising relating to NHS (i) dentistry and (ii) oral health initiatives in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on (a) communications and (b) public advertising relating to NHS (i) dentistry and (ii) oral health initiatives in each of the last five years.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2025
Answer published
NHS England has spent no money on communications or advertising relating to National Health Service dentistry or oral health initiatives in the last five years.Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning primary care services, including NHS d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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