Question follow-through · 127287

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve children's access to dental care in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 14 Apr 2026
Target answer date: 16 Apr 2026
Answer: 21 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve children's access to dental care in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.
16 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Ely and East Cambridgeshire cons...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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