Question follow-through · 48161
Dentistry: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered allowing dentists qualified in Canada an exemption from the requirement to sit the Overseas Registration Examination before practicing in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered allowing dentists qualified in Canada an exemption from the requirement to sit the Overseas Registration Examination before practicing in the UK.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
The Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) exam is operated by the General Dental Council (GDC). The GDC is independent of the Government.It is the role of the GDC to set the standards that must be met by domestic and international applicants wishing to be adde...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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