Dental Practices (Hansard, 1 February 1994)

§ Mr. Stewart

[holding answer 31 January 1994]: No information is held on dental practices. The number of individual dentists registered on health board dental lists to provide national health service general dental services in each of the four health board areas within Strathclyde region and the total number of dentists registered in 683W Scotland is contained in the table. Information for individual local government districts and regional areas is not available.

Number of dentists on health board dental lists in Scotland at 31 December
Year	Argyll and Clyde	Ayrshire and Arran	Greater Glasgow	Lanarkshire	Scotland
1978	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,188
1979	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,207
1980	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,251
1981	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,294
1982	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,334
1983	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1,379
1984	113	110	263	131	1,360
1985	115	112	263	133	1,392
1986	122	114	282	137	1,456
1987	132	122	289	142	1,511
1988	133	113	299	137	1,528
1989	137	112	328	140	1,587
1990	141	118	337	142	1,626
1991	157	118	340	147	1,666
1992	160	120	348	141	1,680
1993	165	126	358	147	1,774
¹ Information before December 1984 is not available for dentists registered with individual health boards