| Heading: |
Dentistry: Qualifications |
| Question ID: |
1759496 |
| UIN: |
27055 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5327 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Vikki Slade
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| Asking Member handle: |
vikkislade72
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@vikkislade72
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will offer provisionally registered status to overseas-qualified dentists. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
In 2024, the Department carried out a consultation on introducing legislation that would give the General Dental Council (GDC) powers to provisionally register overseas-qualified dentists who have not yet met the GDC’s requirements for full registration. ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |