Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the possible impact of the Health and Care Professions Council proposals to increase its mandatory registration fee by 18 per cent from October.

The Government has not made an assessment of the possible impact of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) proposals to increase its mandatory registration fee by 18% from October 2019. The HCPC is independent of Government, funded by registrants’ fees on a costs recovery basis.

Following public consultation, the HCPC is planning to raise its annual fees by £16. If adopted, the HCPC’s annual registration fee will rise from £90 to £106 a year. HCPC registration fees will remain the lowest of any of the United Kingdom-wide health and care regulators. Registration fees are tax-deductible and this fee rise will amount to just over £1 a month extra for most of the HCPC’s registrants.