Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2023 to Question 121128 on Care Homes: Visits, in the context of the 98.6 per cent of care homes stated, how many care homes does that percentage represent; and what proportion of the total homes in England does that figure represent.

In the week ending 14 December 2022, 12,808 care homes submitted visiting data within the seven days prior to the data extract, of which 12,633 (98.6%) said they were able to accommodate visits in or out in all circumstances. These represent 86.3% of all care homes, if we include the 1,817 care homes that did not submit data within this seven day period and were therefore excluded from the analysis for that month.