Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the practical requirements for dentistry courses at universities.

No specific assessment has been made.

The General Dental Council (GDC) is the regulator of dental professionals in the United Kingdom. The GDC set the standards for education and training and each dental school determines its own undergraduate curriculum to meet those standards, through the GDC’s quality assurance processes.