§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish a table showing both the number and the percentage of the potential population of children registered as national health service patients with dentists in each family health service authority.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe information is shown in the table. Since the new dental contract was introduced in October last year, almost 6 million children in England have been registered with a dentist.
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FHSA Number of Capitation Registrations 30 September 1991 Child Registrations as a percentage of child population1 Northern Cleveland 79,471 59 Cumbria 61,502 58 Durham 66,256 50 Northumberland 36,547 54 Gateshead 22,336 50 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 29,236 47 North Tyneside 23,370 56 South Tyneside 16,542 48 Sunderland 29,985 42 Yorkshire Humberside 108,371 54 North Yorkshire 93,123 60 Bradford 55,703 46 Calderdale 25,483 56 Kirklees 46,794 52 Leeds 92,137 57 Wakefield 37,545 52 Trent Derbyshire 110,043 53 Leicestershire 115,439 55 Lincolnshire 71,022 56 Nottinghamshire 130,616 57 Barnsley 24,694 49 Doncaster 42,071 60 Rotherham 30,952 52 Sheffield 62,497 57 East Anglia Cambridgeshire 85,971 55 Norfolk 112,448 71 Suffolk 86,954 58 North West Thames Bedfordshire 46,599 36 Hertfordshire 144,657 64 Barnet 31,394 45 Brent and Harrow 46,043 44 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 52,113 36 Hillingdon 23,149 43 Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster 15,697 27 North East Thames Essex 182,199 53 Barking and Havering 37,229 44 Camden and Islington 22,807 31 City and East London 41,170 28 Enfield and Haringey 47,243 46 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 49,613 50 South East Thames East Sussex 83,304 59 Kent 179,773 52 Greenwich and Bexley 48,577 48 Bromley 32,878 53 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 57,035 36 South West Thames Surrey 130,779 59 West Sussex 98,767 68 Croydon 34,780 48 Kingston and Richmond 33,586 56 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 51,900 42 Wessex Dorset 86,755 66 Hampshire 200,743 56
FHSA Number of Capitation Registrations 30 September 1991 Child Registrations as a percentage of child population1 Wiltshire 71,492 54 Isle of Wight 15,162 58 Oxford Berkshire 94,082 52 Buckinghamshire 90,293 58 Northamptonshire 71,343 52 Oxfordshire 74,100 54 South Western Avon 128,834 61 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 60,349 61 Devon 138,019 63 Gloucestershire 71,922 61 Somerset 64,984 64 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester 89,603 58 Salop 56,510 60 Staffordshire 129,089 55 Warwickshire 60,355 56 Birmingham 110,653 45 Coventry 31,285 43 Dudley 32,436 49 Sandwell 26,214 38 Solihull 22,535 48 Walsall 27,161 44 Wolverhampton 21,037 35 Mersey Cheshire 127,551 57 Liverpool 53,339 48 St. Helens and Knowsley 40,291 48 Sefton 38,959 59 Wirral 40,305 52 North Western Lancashire 176,462 55 Bolton 33,957 53 Bury 22,863 56 Manchester 55,022 51 Oldham 29,833 56 Rochdale 26,463 50 Salford 38,720 71 Stockport 43,149 66 Tameside 28,663 57 Trafford 33,484 70 Wigan 42,193 58 Footnote: 1 Population estimates for 1991 are not yet available. Population estimates as at 30 June 1989 have been used to be consistent with the patient registration data published by the Dental Practice Board.