Health Services: Data Protection

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that NHS data remains under UK control and is used for the benefit of UK patients.


Answered by
James Frith Portrait
James Frith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026

Patient data in the United Kingdom remains covered by the legal frameworks set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality, and that will not change.

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