§ Sir R. Russellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many chiropodists who have been refused 47W registration by the Registration Board for the Professions Supplementary to Medicine as State registered chiropodists have been in private practice for 20 years or more;
(2) how many persons have been registered by the Registration Board for the Professions Supplementary to Medicine as State registered chiropodists in each year since the Board was established; how many have been refused registration; and how many are in private practice without being State registered.
§ Mr. AlisonUnder the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act, 1960, State registration of chiropodists is the responsibility of the Chiropodists Board under the general supervision of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and my right hon. Friend has no power to intervene in the affairs of the Board. Annual Reports, obtainable from the Registrar of the Council, show that 5,643 chiropodists had been registered by the Board up to 1st June, 1971, that 4,657 were on the register at that date and that there were 340 appeals to the Council against refusal between 1963 and 1968 and 97 of them were upheld.