Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 98012

Medical Records: Digital Technology

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Conservative — Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the digital social care record system is designed and maintained to national security standards.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The Department has not designed a single digital social care record (DSCR) system. Rather, through the Digitising Social Care (DiSC) programme which ended in April 2025, the Government set standards for DSCRs and created a list of solutions that have been...
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