Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to (a) publish the evaluation report on the national pilot on hospital trusts requesting two forms of identification from all patients and (b) provide guidance to NHS trusts on whether the practice will continue; whether that evaluation included consideration of whether the practice of requesting two forms of identity may (i) delay, (ii) deter or (iii) prevent patients who do not have proof of identity documents from accessing NHS care; and if he will make a statement.

The evaluation report on the national pilot on hospital trusts requesting two forms of identification from all patients commissioned by Ipsos Mori will be published in due course alongside the Department's proposed next steps and recommended approach.