Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much longer temporary data sharing relaxations implemented in April 2020 will continue; and what criteria they are using to assess when the COVID-19 pandemic "emergency period" has come to an end, for the purposes of such data sharing changes.

Notices under The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 to support the transfer of data for COVID-19 purposes are due to expire on 30 June 2022. The COVID-19 Public Health Directions to NHS Digital will continue, reviewed annually to ascertain if there remains a public health need for information systems to collect data on COVID-19.