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NHS: Databases

Commons · Question 67622 · Tabled 14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether pseudonymised NHS data processed within the Federated Data Platform is subject to remote (a) operability and (b) telemetry access by (i) engineers and (ii) DevOps teams located outside the

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 Jul 2025

There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and this includes synthetic data and all functionalities. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the following...