§ 23. Mr. Jannerasked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that anxiety is being caused in Leicester as the school dental service there is under staffed, and that each dental officer is responsible for more than 9,000 children; and what steps he proposes to take to remedy the position there and similar difficulties elsewhere in the country.
§ Mr. K. ThompsonMy right hon. Friend is aware of the shortage of school dentists in Leicester. This is part of the wider question of the supply of dentists reported on by the McNair Committee, whose recommendations have been accepted by my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Health.