§ Mr. Nigel GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the proportion of students admitted to each of the three dental schools in Scotland in October 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 who graduated on time, and the proportion who failed to graduate in dentistry; and what the corresponding proportions are for dental schools in the United Kingdom as a whole.
Mr. JacksonInformation is not available centrally which directly relates graduate output with entrants to dentistry courses. The numbers of graduates in clinical dentistry in each of the three dental schools in Scotland in the last four years were as follows:
1985 1986 1987 1988 Dundee 48 n/a 33 44 Edinburgh 45 53 47 36 Glasgow 60 67 63 70 All United Kingdom 830 n/a 731 729 n/a not available.
§ Mr. Nigel GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has asked the Universities Funding Council to reach a decision on the undergraduate education recommendations of the report on dental provision in Scotland.
Mr. JacksonWith the agreement of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science, my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has sent the report of the review of dental provision in Scotland to the Universities Funding Council, and asked the council to consider the working party's advice in reaching decisions on undergraduate dental education.