Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80223

Dental Health: Buckingham and Bletchley

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 16 October 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department applied to define deprived areas for the provision of free dental products in early years settings in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

National supervised toothbrushing programme funding and free dental products are based on the Office for National Statistics’ Indices of Multiple Deprivation mid-2020 population estimates. These were used to identify the number of three to five-year-olds ...

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