National Care Standards Commission

HC Deb 01 April 2004 vol 419 cc1670-1W

Mr. Sanders

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost of setting up the National Care Standards Commission was. [163668]

Dr. Ladyman

Fixed assets were acquired for the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) by the Department during 2001–02 and those were transferred into the accounts of the NCSC from 1 April 2002 at a transfer value of £44.943 million. The programme revenue spend on setting the NCSC up was £4.665 million. In addition, the cost of civil servants working on setting the Commission up was £1.423 million. When the NCSC was abolished on 1 April 2004, its assets were transferred to the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, which took over the regulation of social and independent healthcare, respectively, on that day.