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Dental Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Integrated Care Boards have powers to revise indicative units of dental activity values where existing contracts are considered significantly below local averages.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 May 2026
Target answer date
3 Jun 2026
Answer
3 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Integrated Care Boards have powers to revise indicative units of dental activity values where existing contracts are considered significantly below local averages.

  2. 3 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 3 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Since 2024, a minimum Unit of Dental Activity (UDA) value of £28 has been in place to support practices with historically low UDA rates. Integrated care boards have the flexibility to influence the UDA rate locally, which may help to support local interve...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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