Question follow-through · 1870

Abortion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether identifiable data from HSA4 abortion notification forms will be stored in structured, searchable form within any Abortion Notification Service data-lake.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 May 2026
Target answer date
20 May 2026
Answer
9 Jun 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether identifiable data from HSA4 abortion notification forms will be stored in structured, searchable form within any Abortion Notification Service data-lake.

  2. 20 May 2026

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  3. 9 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Department requires that the new service being built to collect and process abortion data includes a secure location to store frozen data extracts, namely datasets that have been locked to prevent further modifications, that can be accessed by the Abo...

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