Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the evidential threshold for the General Medical Council to pass on evidence to the police of malpractice in consultations by unregistered medical professionals from requiring an intent to deceive to recklessness.

There are no current plans to make a specific assessment. On 24 March 2021, we published ‘Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public’, which sought views on the proposals to reform the regulatory framework for health and care professionals. The Government’s response to the consultation will be published shortly and will provide further information, including on proposed changes to the protection of title offences.