Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of residential care homes that have closed in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Constituency since 2010.
Since May 2010, 11 care homes have been ‘deactivated’ in Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough. The Care Quality Commission records care homes which have closed as ‘deactivated’. These locations excludes care homes where the provider continues to operate under a new, separate registration, which may be due to a legal entity change or a change in the provider.