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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1694906/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>We currently invest more than £3 billion in National Health Service dental services each year. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes, and will ringfence this funding in 2024 to 2025. We will issue guidance to the integrated care boards (ICBs) shortly, through NHS England\u2019s 2024 to 2025 revenue finance and contracting guidance. To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to NHS dental care, NHS England will meet with, and collect monthly returns from, all ICBs, to establish current and planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget. Data is not held centrally for dental budgets in prior years.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1690079/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Dentistry Recovery Plan is fully-funded with £200 million and will deliver new initiatives to address the challenges facing National Health Service dentistry, including an extra 2.5 million appointments.<\/p><p>Overall NHS spending totals will be set at Budget in the usual way. We are committed to protecting this funding for dentistry purposes and we will ringfence this funding in 2024 to 2025. We will issue guidance to integrated care boards shortly through NHS England\u2019s 2024 to 2025 revenue finance and contracting guidance.<\/p><p>The Plan sets out the following funding commitments for actions: Golden Hellos of £20,000 to be offered per dentist, for up to 240 dentists over three years; a new patient premium, set at either £50 or £15 depending on the treatment required; an increase of the minimum unit of dental activity value to £28; and Government investment of an additional £300 million to enable 75 upper-tier local authorities to create more Family Hubs, and to improve vital services including oral health support to give every baby the best start in life.<\/p>"}
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