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Health and Social Care Bill

268: After Clause 254, insert the following new Clause— ““Requests for collection under section 254: confidential information (1) A request under section 254 is a confidential collection request if it is a request for the Information Centre to establish and operate a system for the collection of information which is in a form which— (a) identifies any individual to whom the information relates who is not an individual who provides health care or adult social care, or (b) enables the identity of such an individual to be ascertained. (2) A person may make a confidential collection request under section 254 only if the request— (a) is a mandatory request, (b) relates to information which the person making the request (““R””) may require to be disclosed to R or to the Information Centre by the person holding it, or (c) relates to information which may otherwise be lawfully disclosed to the Information Centre or to R by the person holding it.”” Amendment 268 agreed. Clause 256: Information systems: supplementary Amendments 269 to 271 Clause 256: Information systems: supplementary Amendments 269 to 271 Moved by