Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many representatives of patients and the public sit on the care.data Programme Board.

The care.data Programme Board membership includes Simon Denegri, the National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and chair of Involve, the group funded by NIHR to support public involvement in National Health Service, public health and social care research.

The care.data programme is engaging with patients and the public through a number of routes including through the care.data Advisory Group, public events, research and work with a wide range of voluntary sector partners.