HC Deb 02 May 1995 vol 259 cc180-1W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she has received the draft regulations that the General Medical Council expects to implement consequent to the coming into force of the Medical (Professional Performance) Bill; and if she will place them in the Library. [22212]

Mr. Malone

No. The rules cannot he made until the Bill has been enacted. The rules will be made in the form of statutory instruments, subject to the negative resolution procedure.

Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral statements of the Minister for Health in the Special Standing Committee on 25 April,Official Report, columns 748–49; if she will list the names of professional and patient organisations consulted in relation to the Medical (Professional Performance) Bill and place copies of their responses in the Library. [22214]

Mr. Malone

The names of the professional and patient organisations which were consulted by the General Medical Council are already in the public domain. They were listed in appendix A of the General Medical Council's consultation paper "Proposals for new Performance Procedures", published in May 1992. Copies of the document are available in the Library.

Availability of the responses are a matter for the General Medical Council or the individual organisations to decide on.