Question follow-through · 58420
Dentistry: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people waiting to sit a Dental Overseas Registration Examination.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people waiting to sit a Dental Overseas Registration Examination.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold data on exactly how many candidates are waiting to sit the General Dental Council’s (GDC) Overseas Registration Exam (ORE), as this data is held by the GDC. In April 2025, we understand from the GDC that there were approximate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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