Written questions

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

Commons · Question 10013 · Tabled 18 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 24 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Paul Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question UIN 7300on Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation, what evidence informed his Department's decision not to regulate vision rehabilitation specialists

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 24 Oct 2024

The Government has made no assessment of the potential merits of extending statutory regulation to vision rehabilitation specialists. Whilst statutory regulation is sometimes necessary where significant risks to users of services cannot be mitigated in ot...