Care Quality Commission: Finance
(asked on 14th March 2023) - View Source
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 7 February 2023 to Question 135230 on Care Quality Commission: Finance, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to the Care Quality Commission in each year since 2010.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is funded primarily by fees collected from the health and adult social care providers it registers and regulates.
The following table shows the funding the Department allocated to CQC in each year since 2013. The Department is required to keep detailed financial records for six years and therefore information prior to 2013 is not held centrally.
Financial year | CQC funding (in millions) |
2013/2014 | £87.30 |
2014/2015 | £126.00 |
2015/2016 | £135.00 |
2016/2017 | £81.70 |
2017/2018 | £43.10 |
2018/2019 | £39.50 |
2019/2020 | £36.40 |
2020/2021 | £31.70 |
2021/2022 | £32.20 |