Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 7621

Social Services: Private Sector

Tabled: 7 October 2024
Answered: 16 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Sir Ashley Fox

ConservativeBridgwater

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Care Quality Commission of (a) inspecting and (b) rating private care providers who have not been rated in the last four years.

Answer

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) cost over the last four years for fee funded activity was between £220 million and £230 million. The CQC doesn’t break down the cost of activity between private and public providers, however, as shown in the CQC’s Annua...

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