Dentistry and General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 8 May 2025.

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Photo of Luke Evans Luke Evans Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Health and Social Care)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to FOI 02629, if he will undertake a review into the difference in figures between GPs and General Dental Practitioners.

Photo of Karin Smyth Karin Smyth Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

General practitioners (GPs) use Primary Care Support England to report earnings via a Type 1 GPs certificate, and are dependent on their tax return. Dentists use a system called Compass to report their earnings through the NHS Business Services Authority. Dentists’ pensionable earnings are not dependent on their tax return, and they also complete an annual reconciliation report via the Compass system.

Since GPs and dentists report earnings in very different ways, a comparative review is not possible.

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