| Heading: |
Dental Health: Children |
| Question ID: |
1744950 |
| UIN: |
HL2875 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4167 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Benjamin
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| Asking Member handle: |
floellabenjamin
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@floellabenjamin
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to establish a supervised toothbrushing scheme and what estimate they have made of the number of children that would be covered by such a scheme. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-04 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
We are committed to introducing a national supervised toothbrushing scheme, targeted at three- to five-year-olds living in the 20% most deprived areas of England. Supervised toothbrushing schemes are implemented on a setting-based approach, rather than an... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |