Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residential care homes inspected by the Care Quality Commission have been rated (a) inadequate and (b) outstanding in the last 12 months.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given the following response:
Between 1 January 2017 and 8 January 2018, the CQC has inspected and rated 8,730 residential social care locations. Of those, 173 were rated as outstanding and 541 were rated as inadequate.