Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the Written Answers by Lord Markham on 27 February 2023 (HL5458) and 14 March 2023 (HL5916), whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the YAML, R and Python code exportable from NHS England's Federated Data Platform for (1) the Ambulance Dataset Dashboard, and (2) the COVID Monitoring Reporting and Publication Dashboard.

NHS England will from time to time publish examples of code and specifications that are deemed useful to the wider community and industry, including where appropriate, the sharing of code within the NHS GitHub.

To ensure that NHS England is creating a vibrant marketplace for both end users and for industry, it aims to publish the Canonical Data Model structures as well as the metadata, in line with the Tech Code of Practice.

The Federated Data Platform (FDP) Programme is developing a sustainable way to publish examples of specifications and code for specific FDP products. The programme is working through a set of core principles to help determine how they will publish analysis code publicly. This includes making sure that there is appropriate explanatory information surrounding the code, that will help to provide additional context for those viewing the information.