Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what information was provided to NHS patients whose data are held by DeepMind Health before that company was integrated into Google rather than being a separate subsidiary; and whether patients gave informed consent for the handling of their data to be changed.

At this moment in time no contracts have been signed or amended, or other arrangements put in place, and the Streams team have been open with us at the Department about their plans for the transition.

National Health Service trusts are the data controller and retain the responsibility for how the data is used and for gaining patient consent for any change of use.

We have received assurances from DeepMind that no Personally Identifiable Data has been transferred as a result of this corporate restructure.