Question follow-through · 83514
Doctors: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether the absence of mandatory strike-off in the new MPTS guidance for proven sexual misconduct by doctors adequately protects patients.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether the absence of mandatory strike-off in the new MPTS guidance for proven sexual misconduct by doctors adequately protects patients.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The new guidance for Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service tribunals includes more detail about assessing the seriousness of an allegation and the features that may increase the seriousness. The guidance now also includes sanction bandings. These indicat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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