Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Care Quality Commission's independent review on Listening, Learning and Responding to Concerns, published in March 2023.

The Department welcomed the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) independent review report on Listening, Learning and Responding to Concerns. On 24 May 2023, CQC’s board discussed the outcome of the review and committed to placing the recommendations of the review into its new ways of working and the imminent adoption of the regulatory platform and single assessment framework. CQC will set up an independent panel to evaluate whether the changes CQC will have a positive impact. The Department will also assess CQC’s progress against the review’s recommendations through its usual assurance process.