Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 122078

Psychiatry: Regulation

Tabled: 18 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Samantha Niblett

LabourSouth Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of regulation of psychotherapy professions.

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.The Department keeps the professions subject to regulation under review but ha...

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