Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) hospitals and (b) care homes inspected by the Care Quality Commission in each of the last six years did not meet the requirements set out in Regulation 14 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has advised that it is unable to provide a response to this Parliamentary Question due to disproportionate cost. The information requested is held within the CQC. However due to the way the data is recorded, collating a response to the question and going through the CQC’s additional verification processes which must be undertaken to ensure the response is robust and accurate would incur disproportionate cost.