questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public, consultation response: analysis, published on 17 February 2023, if he will make it his policy to remove the five-year rule in relation to regulators being able to consider fitness to practise concerns.
answerText: The Government will consider this issue as part of wider policy work on regulations for healthcare professionals.
heading: Health Professions: Regulation