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 24 October 2022 to Question 67180 on Care Homes: Slough, what proportion of care homes in Slough constituency are rated as requiring improvement.

In the Slough constituency, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated 20% of care homes as requiring improvement and none as inadequate. This compares to 16.9% of care homes in England rated as requiring improvement and 1.6% rated as inadequate.

The CQC has a range of enforcement powers to ensure that providers improve the quality of care delivered. These include issuing requirement notices on what improvements the care provider must make and when; placing a provider in special measures, where the CQC supervise the quality of care while working with other organisations to undertake improvements within set timescales; and hold the care provider to account by issuing fines or prosecuting cases where people are harmed or placed in danger of harm.