Social Services: Private Sector
Commons · Question 7621 · Tabled 7 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Sir Ashley Fox
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
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 16 Oct 2024
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...