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Health: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what due diligence steps his Department takes to assess national security risks before awarding public health data contracts to firms with links to (a) foreign intelligence or (b) military operatio

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
19 Jun 2025
Answer
1 Jul 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what due diligence steps his Department takes to assess national security risks before awarding public health data contracts to firms with links to (a) foreign intelligence or (b) military operatio

  2. 19 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    In awarding the contract for the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), NHS England made an assessment of the cyber risk and the protections offered by each bidder. The FDP has extensive security arrangements in place to manage cyber risk, including: strong n...

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