Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help to ensure temperatures in care home are (a) regularly recorded and (b) regulated.

We work closely with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) who ensure the quality of adult social care. CQC do not set specific expectations on temperature in care homes and therefore do not record any data on temperature. However, under Regulation 15, Premises and Equipment, CQC make sure that the premises where care and treatment are delivered are clean, suitable for the intended purpose, maintained and, where required, appropriately located. Should CQC identify any issues with temperature as part of their regulatory approach they can take action to prevent people coming to harm.