NHS: Data Protection

(asked on 23rd October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what measures are in place to ensure that NHS data, including children's heath records, are held and processed under UK control.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 3rd November 2026

Patient data in the United Kingdom remains covered by the legal frameworks set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality, and that will not change.

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