Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government to what extent inspection reports by the Care Quality Commission examine claims made by sponsoring organisations regarding those organisations' recruitment, training and contract practices.

As the independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) monitors, inspects and rates health and social care services to make sure people receive safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care, and encourages care services to improve.

CQC publishes inspection reports on its website, through which it sets out its findings. CQC’s inspection reports may include its ratings, as well as information on good practice, concerns, and evidence of breaches of regulation CQC has found. CQC’s assessments consider providers’ approach to staff training and wellbeing, and where CQC receives information of concern about a provider it may carry out additional assessment activity. The professional regulators also have responsibility for ensuring health and care professionals have appropriate qualifications.