Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a timetable for bringing forward commencement orders on powers for the Care Quality Commission to assess integrated care systems.
Section 31 of the Health and Care Act 2022 introduced duties on the Care Quality Commission to conduct reviews and assessments of integrated care systems. The government is preparing to make a Commencement Statutory Instrument that will commence these duties on 1 April 2023.