Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information the Care Quality Commission holds on the quality of care in care homes.

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

As at 12 October 2015, the CQC has published 8,318 ratings for adult social care providers since it began inspecting this sector using its new inspection regime on 1 October 2014. Of these, 42 providers have been rated ‘outstanding’, 4,889 as ‘good’, 2,889 as ‘requires improvement’ and 558 as inadequate.

The CQC’s State of Care Report 2014-15, published on 15 October 2015, describes what it has found in its care home inspection programme.