Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to implementing the recommendation of the Children's Commissioner to integrate children's health and education data with a unique ID.

The Department of Health and Social Care is working with the Department for Education on plans to implement a single unique identifier for children, and to improve data sharing across services to support children and families, as set out in the recent policy document Keeping children safe, helping families thrive. A copy of this document is attached.