Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists who qualified outside the UK were given a performer number in (a) Portsmouth, (b) the South East and (c) England in each of the last five financial years; and what the average time taken for the performer number to be allocated was in each case.

The information requested is not held centrally. There are currently 32,695 dentists on the Dental Performers List for England.