§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental patients have been deregistered in each family health service authority since July 1992.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe information is shown in the table. Since July 1992 there has been a net increase of over 600,000 patients registered with 264 dentists in contract with family health services authorities. 837W
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Number of dental patients deregistered, from 3 July 1992 to 11 March 1994, by Family Health Service Authority England FHSA Number of patients deregistered All FHSAs 647,593 Cleveland 2,636 Cumbria 13,403 Durham 347 Northumberland 2,665 Gateshead 725 Newcastle-upon-Tyne — North Tyneside 3 South Tyneside 16 Sunderland — Humberside 10,949 North Yorkshire 9,710 Bradford — Calderdale 876 Kirklees 691 Leeds 8,790 Wakefield 936 Derbyshire 19,235 Leicestershire 13,161 Lincolnshire — Nottinghamshire 4,853 Barnsley — Doncaster 23 Rotherham 394 Sheffield 1,492 Cambridgeshire 5,264 Norfolk 29,038 Suffolk 7,187 Bedfordshire 1,317 Hertfordshire 7,113 Barnet 4,871 Brent and Harrow 1,551 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 35 Hillingdon — Kensington, Westminster and Chelsea 2,288 Essex 14,947 Barking and Havering 3,858 Camden and Islington 313 City and East London 751 Enfield and Haringey 981 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 2,214 East Sussex 15,304 Kent 54,585 Greenwich and Bexley 4,392 Bromley 13,206 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 446 Surrey 27,404 West Sussex 35,481 Croydon 1,945 Kingston and Richmond 1,016 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 1,756 Dorset 22,886 Hampshire 24,365 Wiltshire 11,525 Isle of Wight 3,634 Berkshire 26,057 Buckinghamshire 18,818 Northamptonshire 3,124 Oxfordshire 26,240 Avon 15,478 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 14,729 Devon 27,721 Gloucestershire 52,618 Somerset 4,042 Hereford and Worcester 4,181 Shropshire 684 Staffordshire 7,801 Warwickshire 9,676 Birmingham 2,268 Coventry 1,598 Dudley — Sandwell —
FHSA Number of patients deregistered Solihull 2,507 Walsall — Wolverhampton — Cheshire 6,474 Liverpool 430 St. Helens and Knowsley 19 Sefton 590 Wirral 604 Lancashire 25,440 Bolton 632 Bury 675 Manchester 298 Oldham — Rochdale 1,904 Salford 151 Stockport 1,279 Tameside 742 Trafford 245 Wigan —