§ Mr. McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many dental deregistrations there were in the period 1985 to 1993;
(2) how many clients were registered with general dental practitioners in each year since 1983.
§ Dr. Mawhinney[holding answer 17 June 1994]: Before the introduction of the new dental contract in October 1990, patients did not register with their dentists for treatment. Patients could not therefore be deregistered before that date. There were 687,765 deregistrations between 3 July 1992, the date deregistrations started to be counted, and 10 June 1994. Over a broadly similar period, total patient registrations rose by 1,049,178.