Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in what proportion of cases her Department received information that it did not already hold in each month since the Memorandum of Understanding between NHS Digital and the Home Office entered into operation.

The Department does not receive information relating to Home Office requests for information to NHS Digital, under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The MoU is a data sharing agreement between NHS Digital, the Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care and requests for information are made directly to NHS Digital by the Home Office. From 1 January 2017, data on the number of information requests submitted by the Home Office has been published on the NHS Digital website.