HC Deb 11 December 1989 vol 163 c507W
Mrs. Fyfe

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the statutory provisions which relate to the employment of radiographers.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

In terms of the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) (Scotland) Regulations 1974, no health board can employ a person as radiographer unless that person is state registered under the provisions of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960. That is the only statutory provision relating specifically to radiographers.

Mrs. Fyfe

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, under any proposed tendering legislation, health boards will be required to stipulate in the specifications for contract that all radiographers employed must be state registered.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

There is no such specific tendering legislation nor is any planned.