§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton North-East on 2 June, if agreement has now been reached with the British Medical Association for safeguarding the confidentiality of medical information in the proposed computerisation of medical records of children under the age of 5 years; and if not, what further problems remain.
§ Sir George YoungAgreement has not yet been reached. The British Medical Association asked for details of the design of the computer system, but the trials are not expected to commence until the summer of 1981 and development work has156W not reached that detailed stage. The association is aware of this and has been told it will be given the information when it is available.