Question follow-through · 110269
Care Workers: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent care agencies from supplying staff who deliver unsupervised personal care without the required registration with the Care Quality Commission.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent care agencies from supplying staff who deliver unsupervised personal care without the required registration with the Care Quality Commission.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
We have understood that the term care agencies refers to employment agencies. Care providers are required to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) where they carry out a regulated activity, as described in the Health and Social Care Act 200...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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