Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 13 March 2014, Official Report, column 358W, on medical records: databases, on what date the extraction requirement for care.data will be finished; and whether that requirement will be publicly available.

The General Practice Extraction Service Independent Assurance Group discussed an updated customer requirement for the NHS England's care.data programme at the 27 March 2013 meeting. At the meeting, the board agreed by majority vote that this requirement should proceed.

A copy of this document can be found on the Health and Social Care website, at the following link:

www.hscic.gov.uk/media/11705/Care-Data-IAG-Submission-Template---27-March-2013-NIC-178106-MLSXW/pdf/Care_Data_IAG_Submission_Template_-_27_March_2013_(NIC-178106-MLSXW).pdf