To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to publish the timetable for the section 60 order required to implement statutory regulation for clinical physiologists. [HL1661]

Proposals for the statutory regulation of clinical physiologists will be resolved as part of a separate consultation, as outlined in The Future of the Healthcare Science Workforce Modernising Scientific Careers: The Next Steps: A Consultation, published in November 2008. A copy has already been placed in the Library.

Plans for a separate consultation on proposals for regulation will be announced in due course.