Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) NHS establishments, (b) private and medical establishments and (c) registered medical practitioners operate in the UK; how many such establishments or practitioners process personal data for which notification or registration with the Information Commissioner is required; and what estimate he has made of how much revenue has been generated by registered medical practitioners in the UK from processing personal data in each of the last three years.

The Care Quality Commission regulates health and adult social care providers in England and has published data about the number of organisations it regulates in its business plan, which is available at:

http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/business-plan-shaping-future

The Data Protection Act 1998 requires every organisation in England that processes personal information to register with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), unless they are exempt.

Information about the number of health and care organisations required to register with the ICO is not held centrally.

Information about how much revenue has been generated by registered medical practitioners in the United Kingdom from processing personal data is not held centrally.