Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 95962

Health Services: Labour Turnover

Tabled: 1 December 2025

Answered: 4 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Darren Paffey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of extending statutory regulation by the Health and Care Professions Council to clinical technologists and sonographers on (a) workforce recruitm

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Government is clear that the professions protected in law must be the right ones and that the level of regulatory oversight must be proportionate to the risks to the public.There are no current plans to extend statutory regulation by the Health and Ca...

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