To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of conditionally registered osteopaths awaiting confirmation of full registration on 9 May 2003. [115758]

[holding answer 3 June 2003]: There were no conditionally registered osteopaths awaiting confirmation of full registration on 9 May 2003. Since the opening of the General Osteopathic Council's register in 1998, 1,142 osteopaths have been converted from conditional to full registration.