Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when care.data will be rolled out nationally; and if he will make a statement.

A full evaluation of the pathfinder stage will take place and further rollout of the programme is dependent on this evaluation. It is a programme led evaluation and the timing of it is subject to the National Data Guardian’s (Dame Fiona Caldicott) assessment of the arrangements and safeguards which will precede it. NHS England anticipates it will conclude in early 2016. The evaluation will involve the care.data pathfinder practices and clinical commissioning groups.