Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 492W, on medical records: databases, whether the What about Youth? trial survey had support under section 251 of the NHS Act 2006; and whether the data has now been deleted.

The Department commissioned the Health and Social Care Information Centre to carry out the “What about YOUth?” trial survey. A trial survey to test some of the processes and methodology was undertaken and this ran from November 2013 to February 2014. Ipsos Mori was commissioned to carry out the trial survey. The trial survey did not have section 251 of the NHS Act (2006) support and the data have now been deleted.