Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which stakeholders were asked, prior to 16 April, to comment on the content of a draft of any letter to patients for the national data opt-out programme.

Prior to 16 April 2018, the National Data Opt-out Programme has asked a number of stakeholders to comment on a draft letter that in its final form will be issued to all patients that have a type 2 opt-out recorded on their electronic patient record held at their general practitioner practice. The stakeholders asked to comment were:

- The National Data Guardian Panel;

- The Information Commissioner’s Office;

- British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK Patient Panel;

- Plain English Campaign;

- The National Data Opt-out Advisory Group; and

- The National Data Opt-out Editorial Board.

The letter was shared with other organisations after 16 April 2018.