Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the 2014 National Study of Health and Wellbeing data will be made available through the UK data service for secondary research.

A version of the dataset has been transferred to the United Kingdom data service. NHS Digital anticipates it will be made available for researchers to apply for within the month of November 2017, subject to the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data for NHS Digital recommending approval of the proposed terms and conditions for release.

Individual researchers will then need to apply for access to the data and these applications will be reviewed by NHS Digital. NHS Digital has applied additional disclosure control measures to ensure the privacy of individuals is protected while looking to ensure maximum use to be made of these valuable, publicly funded data collections.