Statistics and Registration Service Bill

moved Amendment No. 193: 193: Clause 40, page 18, line 15, after first ““the”” insert ““name,”” The noble Baroness said: Amendment No. 193 would amend Clause 40(4) by providing that NHS information disclosed to the board should not include a patient’s name. Amendment No. 197 would make a similar amendment to Clause 41. Amendment No. 193 makes a relatively narrow point about whether a person’s name—the most personal piece of information—can be disclosed. Various items of information are listed as capable of being disclosed, but name is not mentioned, and we want it to be absolutely clear that it would be inappropriate for a person’s name to be disclosed under Clause 40. I hope that the Government will agree that there should be no circumstances in which a person’s name would be disclosed with the other information that is transmitted to the board, and that they will agree to put that beyond doubt. I beg to move.