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Dental Services

Commons · Question 59293 · Tabled 12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 17 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations on increasing the availability of NHS dental (a) practices and (b) other services in all parts of the UK.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 17 Jun 2025

State funded healthcare is a devolved matter outside of England, and is the responsibility, respectively, of the Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish administrations. However, governments across the United Kingdom routinely work together to share best prac...