Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 14786
Dental Services: Exemptions
Tabled: 1 July 2026
Answered: 14 July 2026
Question
Yasmin Qureshi
Labour — Bolton 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 KinnockThe 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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