Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care of 8 June 2021, Official Report, column 808, that the planned sharing of patient data by NHS Digital is to be delayed until 1 September, when he plans to publish the Data Protection Impact Assessment of those proposals.

NHS Digital intends to publish the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the programme following its final assurance processes including legal and stakeholder reviews.