Question follow-through · 84816

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate funding in the Autumn Budget 2025 to improve access to NHS dentistry for children in West Dorset constituency.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 23 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 27 Oct 2025
Answer: 13 Nov 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate funding in the Autumn Budget 2025 to improve access to NHS dentistry for children in West Dorset constituency.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
The budget for Autumn 2025 has not yet been announced, however access to National Health Service dentistry, including for children, and addressing the issue of under-served areas remains a priority for the Government.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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