Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 60619, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expanding high-level access permissions on the NHS principle of data minimisation.

There has not been an expansion of high-level access permissions. NHS England has not identified any adverse impact on the principle of data minimisation from the management of access permissions within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).

The NHS FDP operates under a privacy by design approach, with data minimisation embedded as a core requirement of its Information Governance Framework. Access to data is strictly controlled on a role-based and purpose-based basis, ensuring that users can only access the minimum data necessary to perform an approved function.