Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) synthetic datasets, (b) model parameters, (c) algorithm weights and (d) derived feature maps generated using NHS training data have been (i) exported to and (ii) accessed from locations outside UK sovereign data zones.

There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and this includes synthetic data and all functionalities. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/federated-data-platform-information-governance-framework/