Care Quality Commission: Fees and Charges

(asked on 3rd November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost to care providers of the proposed increases in fees set out in the options in the consultation paper published by Care Quality Commission on 2 November.


This question was answered on 16th November 2015

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published an initial impact assessment of the proposed fee increases alongside its consultation document. The CQC will publish a final impact assessment alongside its response to consultation document in March 2016. The initial impact assessment is attached and can be found on the CQC’s website at:

http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/health-and-social-care-fees-consultation.

Under HM Treasury guidance (Managing Public Money), public bodies are required to set fees in order to cover the full cost of regulatory activities. The proposed fees increases being consulted upon for 2016-17 reflect the CQC’s commitment to achieving full cost recovery, in line with Managing Public Money, within the period of the Spending Review. The fees being charged are therefore funding the CQC as an effective regulator, they allow the CQC’s tough inspection regime to drive up standards across the country, which in turn ensures quality and safety of health and social care provision.


The CQC does not underestimate the impact on providers of paying fees, and will continue to look carefully at its costs relating to regulation. The CQC has a responsibility to recover its regulatory costs by charging fees, but it is also accountable for demonstrating that CQC is fair, efficient, effective and proportionate. The CQC advises that in relation to the overall spending on health and adult social care in England is 0.16%.

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