Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last met the Health and Care Professions Council to discuss its planned role in regulating NHS managers.

I met with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) most recently on 29 October 2025, where work to introduce National Health Service managers into statutory regulation was discussed.

Department officials are working with the HCPC to identify the cost implications to the Government of implementing a barring mechanism for senior NHS managers, recognising that the HCPC cannot fund the implementation or operation of a barring system for senior NHS managers through registration fees levied against the 15 professions it currently regulates.