§ Mr. Jacques ArnoldTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on remuneration for general dental practitioners in 1993–94.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe Government announced on 6 April 1993 that general dental practitioners were to receive the full 1.5 per cent. pay increase allowed under the Government's policy of restraint in public sector pay. This meant that dentists' target average net income—TANI—increased to £36,352. The dental rates study group met in the spring to consider how this increase in TANI could be paid, and agreed that the increase would be achieved by leaving in place the present scale of fees for dentists.
The group also agreed that should it appear that this fee scale was under or over-delivering TANI either the Government or the dental profession could ask that the group meet again. At a meeting of the dental rates study group held on 1 December, the group recommended that there should be an increase in the fees payable to dentists of, on average, 2.9 per cent. from January 1994. The Government have accepted this recommendation. This is to implement the pay increase of 1.5 per cent. already agreed, and does not alter the pay target of £36,352.
England and Wales—Cumulative to June 1993 Male data cumulative to June 1993 Female data cumulative to June 1993 Age Groups (years) Deaths in AIDS cases AIDS HIV1 Deaths in AIDS cases AIDS HIV1 No. Per cent. No. per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. 0-14 33 1 65 1 303 2 21 9 46 9 87 4 15-24 111 3 282 4 2,501 16 22 10 68 14 582 29 25-34 1,314 31 2,519 37 6,845 44 100 44 235 48 1,022 51 35-44 1,618 38 2,444 36 3,875 25 54 24 95 19 226 11 45-54 817 19 1,045 15 1,432 9 21 9 31 6 61 3 55+ 339 8 389 6 462 3 11 5 13 3 29 1 Total 100 per cent. 4,232 — 6,744 — 15,418 — 229 — 488 — 2,007 — Not known 22 — 12 — 423 — — — 2 — 58 — 1 42 HIV infection reports, age and sex not recorded, are not included.