Question follow-through · 85863
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Integrated Care Boards to use flexible commissioning to improve (a) dental provision and (b) efficiency.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Integrated Care Boards to use flexible commissioning to improve (a) dental provision and (b) efficiency.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
Flexible commissioning is available to commissioners where they have identified a need that cannot be easily met through the provision of mandatory services.It is the responsibility of integrated care boards to commission primary care services, including ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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