Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 14786

Dental Services: Exemptions

Tabled: 1 July 2026
Answered: 14 July 2026

Question

Yasmin Qureshi

LabourBolton South and Walkden

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

Stephen Kinnock
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...

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