HC Deb 05 July 1999 vol 334 c399W
Dr. Naysmith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how he intends to use his order-making powers under schedule 3 of the Health Bill [Lords]. [89464]

Mr. Denham

The powers in Section 60 of what is now the Health Act 1999 allow for the regulation of new professions and the strengthening of existing regulatory schemes by Order. We intend to use these powers to fulfil our commitment to work with the professions to strengthen and modernise the existing systems of health professional self-regulation