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Abortion

Commons · Question 1870 · Tabled 18 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Andrew George

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.

Answer

Answered by Sharon Hodgson, 9 Jun 2026

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...