I propose to take Questions Nos. 381, 394 and 418 together.
Action 105 of the health strategy commits my Department to strengthening and expanding provisions for the statutory registration of health professionals. In this context, the heads of a Bill establishing a system of statutory registration for health and social care professionals, including physiotherapists, have been approved by the Government. A Bill is being drafted by the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel based on the proposals outlined in the heads. Under the health and social care professionals Bill, which is due to be published later this year, it is intended to protect the title of "physiotherapist" in order that only those professionals registered with the registration board for physiotherapists will be legally entitled to use the title. It is also proposed that it will be an offence for an unregistered person to use a protected title or to act in a manner which implies that they are entitled to use a protected title. It would be a matter for the proposed regulatory authority for health and social care professionals to investigate a complaint that a person is misrepresenting themselves in any of these respects.