questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who has custody over the encryption keys used to protect data held within the NHS Federated Data Platform and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
answerText: NHS England owns the keys. The Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) software generates, controls, and stores the key values securely, so they are not accessible to human users.The use of encryption keys is strictly controlled by NHS England for the NHS Fede...
heading: NHS: Data Protection