Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81505

Dental Services: Lancashire

Tabled: 13 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24721 on Dental Services: Lancashire, what recent progress he has made on delivering 700,000 additional dental appointments.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

We have asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission extra urgent dental appointments to make sure that patients with urgent dental needs can get the treatment they require. ICBs have been making extra appointments available from April 2025.Appoi...

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