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Written Question
Dental Services
Tuesday 11th February 2025

Asked by: Catherine Atkinson (Labour - Derby North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to NHS dental services.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

We are determined to rebuild dentistry for the long term.

We will deliver an additional 700,000 urgent dental appointments; reform the dental contract; and introduce supervised toothbrushing for three- to five-year-olds in the most deprived communities.

We are working with the dental sector, including the British Dental Association, to deliver these shared ambitions.