United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 3012
Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation
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19 May 2026
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1 June 2026 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the regulation of counselling and psychotherapy, including legal protections for the titles 'counsellor' and 'psychotherapist'.
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19 May 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the regulation of counselling and psychotherapy, including legal protections for the titles 'counsellor' and 'psychotherapist'.
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1 June 2026
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The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) operates a voluntary registers programme, which provides a proportionate means of assurance for unregulated professions, that sits between employer controls and statutory regulation by ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-05-19/3012
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1907480
- uk · wq-1907480 · source updated 1 June 2026