| Heading: |
Dentistry: Migrant Workers |
| Question ID: |
1812099 |
| UIN: |
59281 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
227 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew George
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Andrew George
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the (a) annual capacity of the Overseas Registration Examination system and (b) number of fully trained overseas dentists already in the UK who are on the waiting list |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2025-06-18 |
| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Overseas Registration exam (ORE) is operated by the General Dental Council (GDC), which is independent of the Government. The Department does not hold data on exactly how many candidates are waiting to sit the GDC’s ORE, or their residency status.We u... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |