| Heading: |
Children: Identification |
| Question ID: |
1766454 |
| UIN: |
32080 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4679 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Neil O'Brien
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| Asking Member handle: |
NeilDotObrien
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@NeilDotObrien
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Single Unique Identifier that the Government are piloting is the NHS number; what the (a) locations, (b) timing and (c) size of the pilot is; and how families have been informed. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4653 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Morgan
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenmorganmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenmorganmp
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
The department is currently exploring the suitability of using the NHS number as a single unique identifier with Wigan local authority. This process will take several months. This first phase of work will explore whether success rates of linking children’... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |