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Dental Services: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the 10,910 additional urgent dental appointments allocated to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board have been delivered since April 2025.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
30 Oct 2025
Answer
9 Jan 2026 · 74 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the 10,910 additional urgent dental appointments allocated to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board have been delivered since April 2025.

  2. 30 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    We have asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission extra urgent dental appointments to make sure that patients with urgent dental needs can get the treatment they require. ICBs have been making extra appointments available from April 2025.Appoi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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