§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of persons per general dental practitioner by health district.
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§ Mr. Hayhoe[pursuant to his reply, 6 May 1986, c. 87]: The information requested is available only in relation to regional health authority and family practitioner committee areas. The position, as at 30 September 1984, was as follows:
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Area Number of persons per dentist Northern Regional Health Authority 4,387 Cleveland FPC 4,689 Cumbria FPC 3,778 Durham FPC 5,116 Northumberland FPC 4,556 Gateshead FPC 4,658 Newcastle upon Tyne FPC 3,231 North Tyneside FPC 3,660 South Tyneside FPC 5,863 Sunderland FPC 4,908 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority 3,772 Humberside FPC 5,069 North Yorkshire FPC 3,156 Bradford FPC 3,807 Calderdale FPC 3,824 Kirklees FPC 4,197 Leeds FPC 3,018 Wakefield FPC 4,503 Trent Regional Health Authority 4,402 Derbyshire FPC 4,798 Leicester FPC 4,352 Lincolnshire FPC 5,251 Nottinghamshire FPC 4,311 Barnsley FPC 4,230 Doncaster FPC 4,367 Rotherham FPC 4,353 Sheffield FPC 3,603 East Anglian Regional Health Authority 3,744 Cambridgeshire FPC 4,089 Norfolk FPC 3,741 Suffolk FPC 3,460 North West Thames Regional Health Authority 2,281 Bedfordshire FPC 4,126 Hertfordshire FPC 2,686 Bamet FPC 1,936 Brent and Harrow FPC 2,282 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow FPC 2,479 Hillingdon FPC 3,317 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster FPC 946 North East Thames Regional Health Authority 3,070 Essex FPC 3,848 Barking and Havering FPC 3,891 Camden and Islington FPC 1,631 City and East London FPC 3,110 Enfield and Haringey FPC 2,633 Redbridge and Waltham Forest FPC 2,984 South East Thames Regional Health Authority 2,921 East Sussex FPC 2,451 Kent FPC 3,345 Greenwich and Bexley FPC 3,475 Bromley FPC 2,688 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham FPC 2,544 South West Thames Regional Health Authority 2,437 Surrey FPC 2,404 West Sussex FPC 2,492 Croydon FPC 2,199 Kingston and Richmond FPC 2,416 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth FTC 2,596 Wessex Regional Health Authority 3,303
Area Number of persons per dentist Dorset FPC 3,074 Hampshire FPC 3,239 Wiltshire FPC 3,803 Isle of Wight FPC 3,454 Oxford Regional Health Authority 3,220 Berkshire FPC 2,968 Buckinghamshire FPC 2,988 Northamptonshire FPC 3,999 Oxfordshire FPC 3,231 South Western Regional Health Authority 2,974 Avon FPC 2,839 Cornwall and Isle of Scilly FPC 3,301 Devon FPC 2,886 Gloucestershire FPC 3,031 Somerset FPC 3,127 West Midlands Regional Health Authority 4,076 Hereford and Worcester FPC 3,730 Salop FPC 3,222 Staffordshire FPC 4,949 Warwickshire FPC 3,916 Birmingham FPC 3,657 Coventry FPC 3,648 Dudley FPC 4,487 Sandwell FPC 4,551 Solihull FPC 4,444 Walsall FPC 5,085 Wolverhampton FPC 4,536 Mersey Regional Health Authority 3,696 Cheshire FPC 3,578 Liverpool FPC 3,854 St. Helens and Knowsley FPC 4,466 Sefton FPC 3,643 Wirral FPC 3,245 North Western Regional Health Authority 3,680 Lancashire FPC 4,009 Bolton FPC 4,020 Bury FPC 3,104 Manchester FPC 2,934 Oldham FPC 4.007 Rochdale FPC 4,043 Salford FPC 4,330 Stockport FPC 3,011 Themeside FPC 3,588 Trafford FPC 3,066 Wigan FPC 4,454