Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 93713

Dental Services: Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

Tabled: 24 November 2025

Answered: 2 February 2026

Question

Andy McDonald

Labour — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments, published on 21 February 2025, how many additional urgent dental appoint

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

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

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