Written questions

NHS: Databases

Commons · Question 66354 · Tabled 9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential risks of cross-contamination risk when data from multiple NHS trusts are ingested into a single cloud environment.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Jul 2025

In order to assess the risk and impact to data privacy, all Federated Data Platform (FDP) installations are required to complete a Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA). An overarching DPIA for the FDP was also undertaken. Each FDP Tenant is a logically s...