Question follow-through · 1353

Dentistry: Ely and East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the dental recruitment incentive scheme on reducing dental practice vacancies in the 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 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
21 May 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the dental recruitment incentive scheme on reducing dental practice vacancies in the Ely and East Cambridgeshire Constituency.

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 21 May 2026

    Answer published

    The responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population is delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency, this is the Cambridgeshire and Peterb...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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