Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 16 June (HL696), who authorised the sign-off and publication of National Data Integration Tenant Data Protection Impact Assessment.

The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) safely connects information from different systems across the National Health Service into a single, secure environment. This allows staff to co-ordinate care better to improve outcomes for patients.

In accordance with NHS England’s established information governance and assurance processes, the National Data Integration Tenant (NDIT) Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) was reviewed and approved for sign off by the FDP Data Governance Group as well as senior Information Governance Professionals from NHS England.

For publication, the approved DPIA was reviewed by the Information Asset owner for NDIT and redacted in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 prior to approval for publication by the NDIT product owner, Programme Director and senior Information Governance Professionals from NHS England.