Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with which organisations the Health and Social Care Information Centre has shared data collected from NHS patients in the last 24 months; what data was shared in each case; and if he will make a statement.

Since April 2014, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has published quarterly registers detailing the instances where it has provided data under a data sharing agreement. The registers list each organisation, the type of data released, the legal basis for release and the purpose for which the data was provided. The register also lists the number of releases of non-clinical information provided in response to requests received for the purposes of law enforcement from the Police, Serious Organised Crime Agency and later the National Crime Agency which replaced it during 2013, the Home Office and the courts. The quarterly registers can be found here:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/dataregister

The HSCIC also published the Partridge Review, a review of data releases by its predecessor body, the NHS Information Centre, in June 2014. As part of this review a listing was released of recipients of data from April 2005 to March 2013. This release can be found here:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/datareview