Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 46470

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

Tabled: 17 April 2025

Answered: 28 April 2025

Question

Melanie Ward

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists.

Answer

Karin Smyth

My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not made a formal assessment of the adequacy of the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists. The Government is clear that the level of regulatory oversight must be proportiona...

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