Written questions

Carers: Self-employed

Commons · Question 49209 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 7 May 2025

Question

Asked by Lizzi Collinge

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for self-employed carers to be regulated by the Care Quality Commission.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 7 May 2025

The Department has understood that the term ‘self-employed carer’ refers to self-employed personal assistants. There are no current plans to introduce a requirement for self-employed carers to be regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).Currently, a...