Office for National Statistics: Data for Statutory Functions

Data-sharing agreement from NHS England Data Uses Register. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (ONS)
Published: 2026-10-05
Source reference: DARS-NIC-802558-Z3M1D-v0.4
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-802558-Z3M1D-v0.4
Applicant type: Agency/Public Body
Data controllers: OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (ONS)
Agreement period: 2026-10-05 to 2029-10-04
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): No
Release files listed by NHS England: 0

Data approved

Adult Social Care Client Level Data Set (ASCCLDS)
Birth Notification Data
Community Services Data Set (CSDS)
COVID-19 Ethnic Category Data Set
COVID-19 General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (GDPPR)
COVID-19 Vaccination Status
Diabetes Prevention Programme for ONS
Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)
HES-ID to MPS-ID HES Accident and Emergency
HES-ID to MPS-ID HES Admitted Patient Care
HES-ID to MPS-ID HES Outpatients
Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency (HES A and E)
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC)
Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care (HES Critical Care)
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients (HES OP)
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) v1.5
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) v2
Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) v1.5
Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) v2
Medicines dispensed in Primary Care (NHSBSA data)
Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)
Personal Demographic Service
Waiting List Minimum Data Set for ONS

Objective, as published

The Data will be used for the fulfilment of ONS’ statutory functions set out in the following sections of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (SRSA) 2007, including the production of official statistics, subject to the applicable procedural controls detailed in this DSA: 1. Permitted Uses ONS may use the Data for the purposes of the ONS’ functions set out in the following sections of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007: • Section 20: Production, Publishing, and providing advice on Statistics produced under S20 Official statistics • Section 21: Compilation, Maintenance and Publishing of Retail Prices Index (RPI) [Statistical analysis] • Section 24: Delegated Functions [Research & methodology] • Section 25: Census, Birth registrations, etc. • Section 26: Ancillary powers [Other statistical functions] Uses of the Data for these purposes will be subject to the following procedures: 1.1 Permission to request and/or be given access to the Data for the above purposes is restricted to ONS personnel only. 1.2 ONS personnel identify a requirement to access a specific NHS England data asset to fulfil an ONS statutory function in response to objectives which may originate from a range of personnel, including (but not limited to) Ministers, Government Officials, Senior Directors within ONS, or through internally commissioned analytical or statistical needs. 1.3 The identified requirement is then allocated to the appropriate User(s), who assume(s) responsibility for p…

Expected benefits, as published

Accredited official statistics (that ONS produces) are used as the population baseline for any statistics that are published on a per capita basis. The Department of Health and Social Care and their agencies specifically use both census and population statistics (branded as accredited official statistics) in the planning and provision of health and social care services and the allocation of funding. • Improvements to existing Official Statistics • Development of new Official Statistics – this may involve testing to investigate whether statistics of sufficient quality can be produced, and may also involve the production of statistics badged as ‘experimental’ while further work is done to improve quality aspects such as accuracy • Quality assurance of Official Statistics • Development of co…

Benefits reported by the applicant

Yielded Benefits is not a requirement for new applications.

This is the applicant's own account; OpenHDI has not verified it.

Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-uses-register. Captured 2026-11-05.

Limitations: Data-sharing agreement as published in NHS England's Data Uses Register. An agreement permits access; actual data releases are listed separately. Expected and yielded benefits are as reported by the applicant and have not been independently verified. Long text fields can be cut off in NHS England's spreadsheet export at Excel's 32,767-character cell limit.