Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what changes he plans to make to the CQC's remit to enable it to better deliver change in mental health services.

As the independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is changing its approach to regulating mental health settings to ensure any issues can be identified at an early stage. This includes undertaking out of hours and unannounced inspections; working with people with lived experience to develop an observational-based methodology, to enable shorter and more frequent, on-site inspections of mental health services where closed cultures and restrictive practice are at greatest risk of developing; and working to make system improvements on data reporting and sharing intelligence between monitoring visits and mental health inspections.