Question follow-through · 63594
Dental Services: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a provisional registration scheme for trained international dentists to practice (a) under supervision and (b) with training support in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a provisional registration scheme for trained international dentists to practice (a) under supervision and (b) with training support in the UK.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
We recognise that there is a considerable waiting list for candidates to sit the General Dental Council’s (GDC) Overseas Registration Exam (ORE). I have asked the GDC to urgently develop an action plan of concrete measures to reduce the ORE waiting list, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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