§ 60. Mr. K. Robinsonasked the Minister of Health how many additional places for dental students have been provided since the publication of the McNair Report.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithI understand that in Great Britain there were 652 dental students in the first year of their professional course in 1958–59 compared with 632 in 1957–58 and 582 in 1956–57.
§ Mr. RobinsonThe Minister will agree that this is very poor progress indeed? May we take it from his earlier supplementary answer today that, when the developments recently announced are complete, the McNair recommendations will then have been, however belatedly, fully implemented?
§ Mr. Walker-SmithOf course, these are building projects which necessarily take a little time, as all building projects do. We are seeking, as I have explained, to implement the recommendation in regard to the 800 dentists. I shall have to satisfy myself that they will be achieved by this particular list of projects which I have already announced.