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Health Services: Inspections

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

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Mark Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) the Care Quality Commission and (b) its predecessor organisations have spent on inspection visits in each year since 1997-98. (304755)

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The Care Quality Commission tell us that it does not hold the information in the format requested.

The accounts of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, National Commission for Social Care, Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection and the Commission for Health Improvement did not provide specific costs relating to inspections.

Mark Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many inspectors the Care Quality Commission employs; and how many inspectors its predecessor organisations employed in each year since 1997-98. (304768)

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The Care Quality Commission has provided the following information.

Number for inspectors employed each year by the health and social care regulators since2002-03

National Commission for Social Care

Commission for Social Care Inspection

Healthcare Commission

Care Quality Commission

2002-03

1,027

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2003-04

1,472

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—

2004-05

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1,397

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2005-06

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1,317

137

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2006-07

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1,254

164

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2007-08

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960

130

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2008-09

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828

123

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2009-10

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1913

1 The figure for 2009-10 also includes assessors.

The decrease in 2007-08 is because a number of inspectors were transferred to Ofsted in that year, as responsibility for the inspection of child-care services was transferred.

The Care Quality Commission is unable to provide figures earlier than 2002-03 for social care inspectors. Prior to that date local authorities carried out the inspection of social care.

The Commission does not hold figures earlier than 2005-06 for health care inspectors.