Health and Social Care Information Centre

(asked on 2nd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures are in place to prevent the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) transfering NHS data to Wales for storage; whether the HSCIC definition of overseas includes Wales; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 9th March 2015

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) may arrange with other persons or bodies, including persons or bodies based in Wales, to make provision for the storage of information, provided that the HSCIC has a legal basis to collect and store the information, and provided that the holding of the information by those persons or bodies is lawful. Information can be transferred to Wales if there is a legal basis to do so.

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