Policy paper

Information requests from the Home Office to NHS Digital

Memorandum of understanding (MOU) on processing information requests from the Home Office to NHS Digital to be able to trace immigration offenders.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and Home Office
• Published: 24 January 2017
• Last updated: 20 December 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This publication was withdrawn on 28 January 2019

The memorandum of understanding was withdrawn on 9 November 2018. The Department of Health and Social Care, the Home Office and NHS Digital continue to work together to agree how future information requests will be processed.

Documents

[Withdrawn] Memorandum of understanding between the Home Office, NHS Digital and the Department of Health

PDF, 998 KB, 29 pages

Details

The MOU is between the Home Office, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (now known as NHS Digital) and the Department of Health.

It formalises existing arrangements for the Home Office to make disclosure requests to NHS Digital for the purpose of tracing immigration offenders and vulnerable people who may be at risk.

The names of junior officials have been redacted in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

The MOU came into effect on 1 January 2017 and was renewed by the 3 parties on 20 December 2017.

Published 24 January 2017
Last updated 20 December 2017 + show all updates

1. 20 December 2017

   Added information on renewal of MOU.

2. 24 January 2017

   First published.