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Hospitals: Police

Volume 507: debated on Friday 12 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals with accident and emergency departments provide anonymised data to their local (a) police and (b) crime and disorder reduction partnership. (321964)

There are 103 accident and emergency departments, which are currently collecting and sharing anonymised data with local partners, in England. In most cases, these data are being shared with the crime and disorder reduction partnerships. However, in some cases data are being shared directly with the police.