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Dental Services: Mercury

Commons · Question 87021 · Tabled 31 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 6 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his Department’s policy to introduce a ban on mercury dental fillings in England.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 6 Nov 2025

Dental amalgam is a well-established, safe, and effective dental filling material. Current Department policy is to restrict and phase down the use of dental amalgam to reduce any environmental impacts. This includes regulations to ban the use of amalgam i...