Question follow-through · 92921

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has attended meetings with the Secretary of State for Education on the allocation of new dental school places since 1 January 2025.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
24 Nov 2025
Answer
25 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has attended meetings with the Secretary of State for Education on the allocation of new dental school places since 1 January 2025.

  2. 24 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Ministers regularly engage with ministerial colleagues on a range of issues.The independent Office for Students (OfS) has statutory responsibility for allocating funding for medical and dental school places. Allocation outcomes are based on guidance issue...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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