Question follow-through · 88213
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help reduce (a) regional and (b) wealth inequalities in access to NHS dentistry services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to help reduce (a) regional and (b) wealth inequalities in access to NHS dentistry services.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local populations, and for determining the priorities for investment.We do not hold data on access...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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