Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when NHS England's Unified Information Standard on Protected Characteristics report will be published; and what engagement with stakeholders will take place before its publication.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have submitted the Unified Information Standard for Protected Characteristics scoping project reports to the Department.

We are currently reviewing the recommendations of the reports and will provide an update shortly. We are also considering continued engagement with stakeholders who contributed to the development of the scoping project.