Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that there is sufficient distinction in the Care Quality Commission's handling of major and minor non-compliance issues when publicly naming non-compliant care homes; and if not, on what basis they made that assessment.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information.

The provider handbooks that set out the end-to-end process, CQC’s Key Lines of Enquiry and the assessment framework were published on the 9 October 2014. CQC’s new approach contains ratings that provide a much finer grading of quality with services being rated outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate. CQC inspection reports clearly set out whether regulations have been breached or not, and the action that a provider must take to return to meeting its legal requirements.