Skip to main content
Site logo

Main navigation

  • About Gillian Keegan
  • Campaigns
  • News
  • In Parliament
  • Contact
  • Cost of Living Support
  • Department for Education
Site logo

Health and Care Professions Council Fee (EDM 2069)

  • Tweet
Patient and Nurse

April 2019

First, I would like to recognise the important work done by independent regulators like the HCPC. These organisations help to protect the public and to ensure high levels of service and professionalism.

As I understand, the proposals put forward by HCPC would increase renewal fees from £90 per year to £106 per year (on the basis that that payment is only taken once every two years, this works out at an increase from £180 to £212 every other year). While this does represent an increase of 18 per cent, my understanding is that this fee remains the lowest among all regulators of health and care professionals overseen by the Professional Standards Authority. This increase has been precipitated by a number of factors, including the need to reduce the likelihood of fitness to practice cases through earlier engagement, to keep pace with the cost of inflation, and to offset the impact of the establishment of Social Workers England in 2019 and the subsequent decrease in subscribers. HCPC has also taken steps to reduce their internal costs in response to these changes.

Although I recognise that any increase in subscription can have an impact on the individuals required to pay for membership in order to work, the importance of an independent regulator in this sector cannot be underestimated and helps to protect workers as well as the British public. These fees are tax deductible, and the fee rise will amount to just over £1 a month extra for most of HCPC's registrants.

In Parliament

  • Department for Education (DfE)
  • National Campaign Responses
    • Historic Campaigns
      • Abortion
      • Resignation of Sir Kim Darroch
      • Tethering Campaign: #BreakTheChain
      • Sale of RBS Shares
      • Drones
      • Audio visual information on buses
      • Offensive Weapons Bill
      • NSPCC - Close the Loophole
      • Deportations of Foreign Criminals
      • Draft Enviroment Bill
      • Free School Meals
      • NHS Workforce and Brexit
      • Health and Care Professions Council Fee (EDM 2069)
      • Human Rights Defenders - Azza Soliman
      • Julian Assange
      • Cocoa Production
      • Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs).
      • Paternal Leave
      • Probate Fees
      • Proportional Representation (EDM 591)
      • Prosecutions against army veterans Northern Ireland.
      • Racehorse Welfare Grand National
      • Faulty Tumble Dryers
      • Support Our Pubs
      • The ONE Campaign
      • Bowel Cancer
      • EDM 1829: ban trophy hunting imports into the UK
      • Dubs Amendment
      • DVLA - Assessing Fitness to Drive
      • Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill
      • NHS waiting times
      • Rent 3 Years Tenancy
      • Arthritis
      • Car Manufacturers and Supply Chains
      • Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
      • Debt relief for developing countries
      • Open Doors World Watch List
      • Arms Exports
      • Fixed Odds Betting Terminals
      • Homelessness - Crisis Report "Everybody In"
      • Highway Code Review Horses
      • Protection of pollinators
      • Section 106 of the Equality Act
      • Caging of pheasants and partridges
      • Digital Services Tax
      • Agriculture Bill
      • Postnatal Mental Health
      • Deportation Kweku Adoboli
      • BBC Impartiality
      • Pensions Dashboard
      • Al Quds and Hezbollah
      • Preserve the Antarctic Ocean
  • Key votes and policy

Gillian Keegan Member of Parliament for Chichester

Footer

  • About RSS
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • About Gillian
  • Parliamentary Record
Promoted by Gillian Keegan at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Copyright 2023 Gillian Keegan Member of Parliament for Chichester . All rights reserved.
Powered by Bluetree