To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made of the security implications of housing patient data in a central database. (123990)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) on 13 December 2006, Official Report, column 1178W.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which (a) Government agencies and (b) other public bodies will have access to a centrally held NHS patient database; (123991)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Lynne Featherstone) on 29 November 2006, Official Report, column 799W.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements are in place to allow patients to opt-out of the centrally held NHS database; and what the conditions for opt-out are. (123992)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Mr. O'Brien) on 14 March 2007, Official Report, column 441W.