Petition · past parliament
Extend maternity dental exemptions (new)
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
Women's teeth and oral issues suffer during pregnancy and beyond. Due to covid the full benefit or, in most cases, no benefit has been accessed due to the pandemic and dental practices have stopped taking on patients and waiting lists are lengthy. Maternity exemptions need extending accordingly.
The gov previously denied extending maternity exemption certificates for dental care stating that dentists were open during lockdown.However dentists have stopped taking on new patients and those that are already a patient are finding waiting lists are long for treatment.Women are not recieving the benefit they are entitled to and either missing out due to waiting for appointments and their exemption expiring or not able to access any dental treatment throughout the whole of the pandemic at all.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 24 May 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 28 May 2021 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
28 May 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.