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Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation |
| Question ID: |
1790460 |
| UIN: |
42625 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5070 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lisa Smart
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Lisa Smart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce statutory regulation for (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists to help ensure minimum standards of (i) training, (ii) supervision and (iii) professional conduc |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-07 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
There are no current plans to extend statutory regulation to therapists and counsellors, and no recent assessment has been made of the potential impact of the lack of statutory regulation on patient safety.When considering which professions should be prot... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |