Speeches

Tracey Crouch – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tracey Crouch on 2014-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, from what date the statutory duty of candour will be implemented; and if he will make a statement.

Norman Lamb

We announced, in ‘Hard Truths’ the Government’s response to the Mid Staffordshire public inquiry, that “subject to Parliamentary approval from 2014 every organisation registered with the Care Quality Commission will be expected to meet a new duty of candour”.