Dental Services: Exemptions
Commons · Question 14786 · Tabled 1 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Yasmin Qureshi
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the estimated total cost to the NHS was of providing free NHS dental treatment in England under maternity exemption rules in each of the last five years.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 14 Jul 2026
The cost of treatment is an estimated total of how much patients with an exemption would have paid if they were not exempt. This cost has not been collected from patients.The data is published by the NHS Business Services Authority and is available at the...