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Question follow-through · 10095

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to regulate the (a) psychotherapy and (b) counselling professions.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
24 Oct 2024
Answer
12 Nov 2024 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to regulate the (a) psychotherapy and (b) counselling professions.

  2. 24 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) operates a voluntary registers programme, which provides a proportionate means of assurance for unregulated professions, that sits between employer controls and statutory regulation by ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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