Question follow-through · 10878
Dental Services: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Ministerial colleagues to ensure military families have adequate access to NHS dentistry.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Ministerial colleagues to ensure military families have adequate access to NHS dentistry.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jun 2026
Answer published
We are working to improve access to National Health Service dentistry, which will also benefit members of the Armed Forces community, including the families of those who serve and spend their careers defending and protecting us.From April 2026, we began i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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