{"value":{"id":1831985,"askingMemberId":4592,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-09-03T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","uin":"74841","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on (a) NHS Digital Services and (b) the (i) storage and (ii) retention of patient data.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5213,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-09-19T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The merger of NHS England into the Department will not prevent us continuing to deliver the digital services on which the National Health Service relies, maintaining the highest standards of cyber security and ensuring patient data continues to be appropriately and safely stored. Legislation will make provision as necessary, with Parliament’s approval, to transfer the statutory responsibilities of NHS England to the Department.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"NHS England","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1831985","method":"GET"}]}