Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) care homes and (b) beds in care homes that have closed in England in each of the last three years.

The Care Quality Commission records care homes which have closed as ‘deactivated’. The following table shows the number of ‘deactivated’ care homes in England from 1 November to 31 October in each year since 2020. These locations exclude care homes where the provider continues to operate under a new, separate registration, which may be due to a change in legal entity or provider.