UK Biobank: Data Protection
(asked on 19th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether UK Biobank had made them aware of the exposure online of confidential health records from the UK Biobank project, as reported in The Guardian on 14 March, before the General Practice Extraction Service Data for Consented Research Directions 2026 were signed on 10 February.
This question was answered on 29th April 2026
It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.