Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) private and (b) NHS providers were registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in each year since 2009-10; and how many (i) routine and (ii) risk-based inspections the CQC carried out of each type of provider in each such year.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has supplied the following information:

The CQC is unable to provide the information due to disproportionate cost. The information requested is held within the CQC, however, due to the introduction of its new inspection approach and the way the data is recorded, additional verification processes must be undertaken to ensure the response robust and accurate. These verification processes would incur disproportionate cost.