The CLC has opened a consultation on regulatory fees and fee rates for the licence year beginning 1 November 2025.

• Individual practising certificate fees will remain unchanged, having been frozen for over ten years - a huge real-terms cut over that period.
• We propose to increase practice fee rates by 3% to take account of inflation.
• License Administration fees are also set to increase by 3% to take account of inflation.
• Compensation Fund contributions (made by practices) are proposed to increase by 6% to take account of increased demands on the Fund.

For the licence year 2015-16 the average practice fee rate was 1.25% of turnover. Over the last ten years we have been able to reduce that rate very considerably, and the proposal in this consultation for the licence year 2025-2026 will set the average practice fee rate at just 0.58%, or 58p for every £100 of turnover.

The CLC has been able to reduce the financial burden on practices while maintaining high standards of consumer protection through its managed compliance approach, which is highly valued by CLC practices, as is explained by two practices that have moved into CLC regulation.

You can find out more and have your say through this Consultation Paper.

The consultation closes on Friday, 8th August at 5pm.