Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of a year having passed since it paused researcher access to the 2021-22 Scottish Government Health and Wellbeing Census, following ethical concerns about the way that sensitive personal data from over 130,000 school children in 16 local authorities had been gathered without parental consent, shared with the Scottish Government and then promoted to external researchers, whether it will confirm whether (a) this data has now been deleted and (b) any organisation or department of the Scottish Government still has access to it.
The Scottish Government has deleted all versions of the 2021-22 Health and Wellbeing Census dataset held internally. All onward data recipients, both internal and external, have deleted their copies of these datasets.