Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had with other Government departments on introducing the Law Commission Bill on regulation of health and social care professions for parliamentary consideration; and if he will make a statement.

Ministers, special advisers and officials have had a range of discussions with their counterparts in other Government departments, in particular the Department for Education and the Cabinet Office. The Government is considering how the Law Commissions’ work can best be taken forward.