Dentistry
Health
Paul Beresford (Mole Valley, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse is of training each graduate of a UK dental school. [R]
Daniel Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, Conservative)
The information available to the Department is for university dental schools in England. We estimate that the cost of training undergraduates for the five- year Bachelor of Dental Surgery course is about £200,000, of which students, who are not eligible for support under the arrangements to help low-income families, can be expected to contribute £45,000.