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NHS: Databases

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 21 July 2025UIN 67622

The question

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 UK.

Answered by Karin Smyth

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 link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/federated-data-platform-information-governance-framework/

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