Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral evidence, Work of HM Revenue and Customs, Treasury Select Committee, 9 September 2026, HC5, Q610, what the legal basis is for HMRC to analyse data on people’s saliva.

Further to the answer the Hon Member was provided on 19 October in response to Question 31207, the data from the Health Survey for England can be accessed via the UK Data Service, subject to users agreeing to comply with the relevant End User Licence Agreement. Links to the UK Data Service and End User Licence Agreement are provided below:

https://datacatalogue.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/series/2000021#access-data

https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf