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Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by health authority the numbers of successful applications under the Investing in Dentistry initiative. [82186]
Mr. Denham
The number of investing in dentistry applications which have been approved up to 26 April 1999 are shown by health authority in the table.
| Investing in dentistry requests approved by health authority as at 26 April 1999 | |
| Health authority | Number of applications approved |
| Avon | 5 |
| Barnsley | 4 |
| Bedfordshire | 2 |
| Berkshire | 6 |
| Birmingham | 1 |
| Bradford | 1 |
| Cambridge and Huntingdon | 4 |
| Camden and Islington | 1 |
| City and East London | 5 |
| Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | 10 |
| County Durham | 3 |
| Doncaster | 2 |
| Dorset | 3 |
| Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow | 6 |
| East Kent | 3 |
| East Lancashire | 3 |
| East Norfolk | 3 |
| East Riding | 6 |
| Gloucestershire | 11 |
| Herefordshire | 2 |
| Investing in dentistry requests approved by health authority as at 26 April 1999 | |
| Health authority | Number of applications approved |
| Isle of Wight | 3 |
| Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham | 4 |
| Leicestershire | 2 |
| Lincolnshire | 2 |
| Liverpool | 2 |
| Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth | 2 |
| Morecambe Bay | 7 |
| Newcastle and North Tyneside | 2 |
| Northamptonshire | 4 |
| North Cheshire | 1 |
| North Cumbria | 6 |
| North Derbyshire | 1 |
| North and East Devon | 8 |
| North Essex | 2 |
| North and Mid Hampshire | 7 |
| North Staffordshire | 8 |
| North West Lancashire | 5 |
| North Yorkshire | 8 |
| North West Anglia | 2 |
| Nottingham | 2 |
| Oxfordshire | 6 |
| Portsmouth and South East Hampshire | 8 |
| Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 4 |
| Rotherham | 6 |
| Salford and Trafford | 2 |
| Sefton | 1 |
| St. Helens and Knowsley | 3 |
| Shropshire | 8 |
| Somerset | 6 |
| Southern Derbyshire | 1 |
| South Cheshire | 10 |
| South Essex | 1 |
| South Humber | 2 |
| South Lancashire | 2 |
| South Staffordshire | 2 |
| South West Devon | 8 |
| Southampton and South West Hampshire | 12 |
| Suffolk | 6 |
| Tees | 1 |
| West Hertfordshire | 1 |
| West Kent | 3 |
| West Surrey | 5 |
| West Sussex | 5 |
| Wigan and Bolton | 1 |
| Wiltshire | 14 |
| Wolverhampton | 1 |
| Worcestershire | 3 |