Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to extend the notice made under Regulation 3(4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI) requiring NHS Digital to share confidential patient information for purposes relating to the outbreak of covid-19 beyond September 2021.

It is important that health and care organisations can continue to make the best use of data to respond to COVID-19 and as such the notices will be reviewed and extended as appropriate to ensure this is the case.