Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to include dental care professionals in the Temporary Shortage List.

On 12 May, the Government published its Immigration White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’, and the first set of immigration rules giving effect to the policies in the White Paper was published on 1 July, including raising the skills threshold to RQF 6. At present dentists remain an eligible occupation as that occupation is skilled to RQF 6.