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Dental Services: Lancashire

Commons · Question 81505 · Tabled 13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 Oct 2025

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Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24721 on Dental Services: Lancashire, what recent progress he has made on delivering 700,000 additional dental appointments.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 20 Oct 2025

We have asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission extra urgent dental appointments to make sure that patients with urgent dental needs can get the treatment they require. ICBs have been making extra appointments available from April 2025.Appoi...