Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) steps his Department is taking to monitor the implementation of the new regulatory platform for the Care Quality Commission and (b) information relating to implementation his Department is collecting for analysis; what his planned timeframe is for completion of those reviews; and whether his Department plans to publish the findings of that work.

There are no current plans to undertake a formal analysis or review of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) new regulatory platform. The Department continues to monitor CQC’s progress on its new regulatory platform as part of regular governance and accountability meetings. As an independent body, the CQC may undertake its own analysis and review of its approach and systems for regulating health and social care providers in England.