§ Mr. BaronTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether in the negotiations on a separate directive on mutual recognition of qualifications, safeguards will be adopted to ensure that regulated health professionals will be covered by processes designed to protect public safety. [183936]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 13 July 2004]Yes. The text of the draft, as agreed by the Council, largely consolidates the existing directives which already include safeguards for those professions which benefit from automatic recognition: the current draft includes specific safeguards on service provision for professions having public health or safety implications.