| Heading: |
Dental Services: Mercury |
| Question ID: |
1818531 |
| UIN: |
64357 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5351 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gregory Stafford
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Gregory Stafford
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Public Health England and the UK Health Security Agency on the use of mercury in dental amalgam fillings. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
In England, we will continue to review the use of mercury in dental amalgam fillings and restrict and phase down their use. Administrations across the United Kingdom routinely work together to share best practice and to deliver on our common goals for imp... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |