To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to seek to update the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 in order to (a) protect consumers and (b) protect clinical titles; and if he will make a statement. [8739]

The Government are committed to bringing forward, for consultation, proposals for legislation to replace the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960. A Bill advisory group is advising the United Kingdom Health Departments on the preparation of instructions on a draft Bill, which will be subject to a wide-ranging consultation process to enable all the issues to be debated.