Question follow-through · 26606
Health Services and Social Services: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the Care Quality Commission Fundamental Standard on Visiting and Accompanying to include (a) data on and (b) experiences of family and friends visiting vulner
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the Care Quality Commission Fundamental Standard on Visiting and Accompanying to include (a) data on and (b) experiences of family and friends visiting vulner
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Care Quality Commission Fundamental Standard on Visiting and Accompanying (Regulation 9A) came into force on 6 April 2024 to strengthen the requirements for health and care providers to facilitate visiting, including during pandemics, as long as it is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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