Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) mean, (b) median and (c) modal time taken is for NHS Digital to process a request for data from universities and other healthcare research organisations.

NHS Digital has advised that requests for data received by its Data Access Request Service for the period July 2017 to end June 2018 are as shown in the following table. These include time where the application is with the customer to provide additional detail, as well as the time that the application is with NHS Digital.

Source: NHS Digital