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Samantha Dixon

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Illegal Migration Bill
Tuesday 7th March 2023

(1 year, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Barclay Portrait Steve Barclay
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My hon. Friend is right to highlight the community services that we are doing as part of our urgent and emergency recovery plan, looking at how we deliver care quicker through innovative models. One of those involves better co-operation with the fire service.

Samantha Dixon Portrait Samantha Dixon (City of Chester) (Lab)
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T7. York and Chester have many similarities, and it would appear that a complete absence of any access to dental services is another one. Can I impress on the Minister the urgency of improving access to NHS dentistry, because it is essential that my constituents do not have to travel for miles and worry for months?

Neil O'Brien Portrait Neil O’Brien
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We will be setting out further steps shortly, but there are 6.5% more dentists doing work for the NHS than in 2010 and we have started the reforms with more units of dental activity bands and a minimum UDA.

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