Question follow-through · 58838
Dentistry: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help prevent international dentists entering the UK on NHS-sponsored Health and Care Visas leaving the NHS for private practice.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help prevent international dentists entering the UK on NHS-sponsored Health and Care Visas leaving the NHS for private practice.
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
The immigration system will allow those who meet the visa requirements, such as having a job offer from an approved sponsor and being paid the appropriate salary, to come to the United Kingdom to be dentists. It does not differentiate between those who wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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