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Dental Services: Exemptions

Asked by Yasmin QureshiLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 14 July 2026UIN 14786

The question

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.

Answered by 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 following link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202425

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