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 impact on retention of the physiotherapy workforce of the 20 per cent rise in registration fees agreed by the Health and Care Professions Council.

No assessment is planned at this time. Fees will remain below £120 per year meaning that the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has the lowest fees of any of the United Kingdom healthcare professional regulators. The fee rise is equivalent to an increase of just over £1.60 per month before tax for most of HCPC’s registrants. Registration fees are tax-deductible. In recognition of the difficult circumstances registrants are facing, alongside the fee rise the HCPC also committed to implementing a series of mitigation measures.