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Social Services: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the Care Quality Commission’s registration process times; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of those processing times on th

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
16 Jul 2025
Answer
25 Jul 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 14 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the Care Quality Commission’s registration process times; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of those processing times on th

  2. 16 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Care Quality Commission (CQC) does not record registration data in the format requested, for the timeliness of registration application processing by constituency.Dr Penny Dash published her report into the CQC in October 2024. The Government accepted...

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