Question follow-through · 108254
Dental Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to help increase access to NHS dentistry in rural areas in (a) the next 12 months and (b) during this Parliament.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to help increase access to NHS dentistry in rural areas in (a) the next 12 months and (b) during this Parliament.
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Dental Statistics - England 2024/25, published by NHS Business Services Authority on 28 August 2025, is available at the following link:https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202425The data for the Dorse...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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