Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve adult social care (a) data sharing and (b) data-linkage.

Each integrated care system in England has a basic shared care record which is accessible to appropriate staff and enables sharing of information between general practitioner practices and National Health Service trusts. We have provided at least £150 million to support Care Quality Commission registered care providers to adopt a digital social care record and committed that within six months of a care provider implementing a digital social care record, it can connect to the local shared care record. By March 2023, we set out a standardised approach to social care terminology which will support interoperability and sharing of data across social care and health.