Question follow-through · 108401
Care Workers: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what vetting procedures are in place to ensure care agencies providing non UK workers in the care industry ensure the safety of patients before allowing workers to commence a caring role.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what vetting procedures are in place to ensure care agencies providing non UK workers in the care industry ensure the safety of patients before allowing workers to commence a caring role.
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
Care agencies who carry out a regulated activity must be registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and are expected to comply with relevant regulations. Where a care agency does not carry out a regulated activity but supplies workers to a regulated ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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