Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many places at dental school will be available in each year to 2035, by dental school.
The Office for Students (OfS) allocates places to dental schools on an annual basis. In the academic year 2021/22, in England, there were 983 dental school places allocated, including places for overseas students. Allocations for the 2022/23 academic year will be issued by the OfS in December 2021.
The following table shows the number of dental places per dental school in 2021/22.
Dental school | Places |
Birmingham | 86 |
Bristol | 93 |
University of Central Lancashire | 34 |
King’s College London | 162 |
Leeds | 84 |
Liverpool | 84 |
Manchester | 92 |
Newcastle | 71 |
Plymouth | 82 |
Queen Mary University of London | 107 |
Sheffield | 88 |
Following the Spending Review 2021, spending plans for individual budgets, including for the training and education of the dental workforce, will be subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and finalised in due course. Longer term workforce planning will be subject to future spending reviews.