Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether information standards in force under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will be (a) replaced by mandatory information standards made under the amended framework introduced by the Health and Care Act 2022, (b) revoked and (c) allowed to expire; and whether she plans to retain existing information standards on a non-mandatory have due regard basis indefinitely.

This question was answered on 30th October 2026
The Health and Social Care Information Standards (Procedure) Regulations 2025 allow information standards made under the existing system to remain in place, until such a time as they are revoked, replaced, expire, or go through the prescribed procedures to become mandatory. That continuity will provide NHS England with the time it needs to review the existing standards and determine what should happen to them.