Assessment of the performance of CQC
Thirlwall Inquiry · Thirlwall Inquiry Final Report · Issued 15 September 2026
Government responseDepartment of Health and Social Care: No response yet (Sep 2026)
DeliveryNo statement from Department of Health and Social Care found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, Chapter 42
There must be a rigorous and consistent review and assessment of the performance of CQC
by the Health and Social Care Committee, initially once a year and, once the committee is
satisfied, once every three years, or such other frequency to be determined by the select
committee.
Thirlwall Inquiry, Thirlwall Inquiry Final Report · 15 Sep 2026 Source PDF, page 7 →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Inquiry recommended regular parliamentary reviews of the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In an oral statement in September 2026 on the day the Inquiry report was published, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care noted that the report makes recommendations for regulators, including CQC (Department of Health and Social Care response, Sep 2026). Addressing further action, the Minister stated that the government "will, of course, consider the entire report and set out a full response" (Department of Health and Social Care response, Sep 2026). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of September 2026 (Department of Health and Social Care response, Sep 2026).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 5 Oct 2026.
Government response
●Department of Health and Social Care · No response yet · 15 Sep 2026
No formal government response published. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's oral statement of 15 September 2026, made on the day the Inquiry's report was published, does not name this recommendation, which is addressed to the Health and Social Care Committee. It says only that the report "makes recommendations for the regulators, including CQC". It says the government "will, of course, consider the entire report and set out a full response". No later government response to this recommendation was found in the sources searched on 28 September 2026.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Department of Health and Social Care has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
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