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NHS: Data Protection

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the titles of all items of guidance (a) the Information Centre for Health and Social Care and (b) the NHS Business Services Authority has issued to its staff on the handling of personally-identifiable data; if he will place copies of these items of guidance in the Library; and if he will make a statement; (170074)

(2) what recent assessment the (a) Information Centre for Health and Social Care and (b) NHS Business Services Authority has made of the security of the personally-identifiable data it collects.

I refer the hon. Member to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 21 November 2007, Official Report, column 1179. The review by the Cabinet Secretary and security experts is looking at procedures within Departments and agencies for the storage and use of data. A statement on Departments' procedures will be made on completion of the review.