Question follow-through · 94175
Health Professions: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to update healthcare professional regulation.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to update healthcare professional regulation.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to modernising the regulatory frameworks for all healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom.As a first step, we aim to consult on secondary legislation to modernise the General Medical Council’s regulatory framework in earl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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