§ Mr. John Wellsasked the Minister of Health if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the total number of dental surgeons employed in the National Health Service and their total remuneration in each year since its establishment; 67W and what estimate he has of the total number of dental surgeons in practice in 1938 and their total remuneration.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonThe number of dentists employed in the hospital and general dental services is given in columns 2 and 3 of the table below; some of these dentists may be employed in both services. The remuneration of dentists for general dental services is given in column 4; that of dentists in the hospital service is not separately recorded.
Year Hospital Service General Dental Services Number of dentists (whole-time equivalent, excluding honorary officers) Number of dentists (a) Total Remuneration (b) (1) (2) (3) (4) £ 1948–9 (d) … 206 9,495 49,331,000 1950 … 268 9,657 40,495,000 1951 … 301 9,694 33,914,761 1952 … 325 9,485 27,004,068 1953 … 314 9,473 26,451,853 1954 … 309 9,599 28,977,330 1955 … 345 9,788 33,286,816 1956 … 357 9,924 37,145,781 1957 … 384 10,156 40,715,051 1958 … 398 10,274 43,923,954 1959 … 382 10,418 47,491,302 1960 … 399 10,254 50,619,341 1961 … 414 10,450 53,649,332 1962 … 449 10,540 54,561,046 1963 … 471 10,496 54,856,935 1964 … (c) (c) 57,819,140 (a) Full-time or part-time. There is some duplication in the figures before 1960 where dentists practised as both principal and assistant or in more than one Executive Council area.
(b) Including reimbursement of practice expenses. Excluding salaries to dentists in health centres which rose from £4,860 in 1948–9 to £24,431 in 1963–4.
(c) Not yet known.
(d) July, 1948-December, 1949.
I have no estimate with which to answer the second part of the Question.