Department of Health and Social Care

What you may be able to request

Some information categories are based on the authority's published responsibilities and may not yet have been confirmed through an FOI response.

“DHSC Deputy Directors serve as the Information Asset Owners for their respective business units.”

1. DHSC
   ↓
2. DG Group
   ↓
3. Directorate
   ↓
4. Business unit / team
   ↓
5. Deputy Director
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6. Information Asset Owner

This matters for the Information Map because it identifies who holds organisational responsibility for departmental information, at a level requesters can name.

• These are the main information repository systems DHSC disclosed. They are not stated to be the only systems used by DHSC.
• DHSC states that it does not hold a central record listing every system and tool used by individual teams.
• DHSC does not hold a central record confirming whether every information asset is searchable or which staff can search each asset.

The disclosed schedule FOI-1718686 IAR with Directorates (29 pages) links information assets through: Information asset name → DG Group → Directorate → Business sub-group.

34 of 34 categories

• Administration
• Anti-Fraud
• Arm's Length Bodies / NHS England / statutory health and care bodies
• Capital Delivery Strategy and Oversight
• Contracts
• Corporate
• Correspondence
• Covid
• Data
• Data – Customer
• Data – Deaths
• Data – Modelling
• Data – Pharmacy
• Data – Primary Care
• Data – Surveys and consultations
• EU Exit
• Financial Information
• Legal
• Marketing Campaigns
• Medical Technology & Innovation
• Medical Workforce
• Office Technology
• People Data
• People Data – Pay and Pensions
• People Data – Recruitment
• People Data – Reward
• People Data – Staffing
• Policy
• Procurement
• Reference
• Security
• Sponsorship of inquiries
• Suppliers
• Training and Education

The disclosed schedule links each information asset to a DG Group, Directorate and business sub-group across 29 pages. Asset-level rows are being transcribed from the source document; the categories and DG Groups below are taken directly from the disclosure. No asset-to-system or asset-to-directorate link is shown here unless it appears in the schedule.

DG Groups appearing in the disclosed schedule. Open a group to see the directorates, business sub-groups and information assets transcribed from the source document so far.

• Chief Medical Officer / Chief Scientific Adviser+
• Adult Social Care+
• Finance and Group Operations+
• Global and Public Health+
• Primary Care and Prevention+
• Secondary Care and Integration+

Agencies and public bodies

Recorded information limitations identified by DHSC

Information the authority states it does not hold centrally. This is recorded separately from information disclosed, so the two are never confused.

• ○A specific description of every business unit's responsibilities.
• ○A central record containing every system or tool used by individual teams.
• ○A central record confirming whether every asset is electronically searchable.
• ○A central record identifying which staff can search every individual asset.

Mapping progress

1. 7 August 2026
   Response received

   FOI-1718686 (7 August 2026): DHSC disclosed its organisational structure, Information Asset Register information mapped through DG Groups, Directorates and business sub-groups (29-page schedule), confirmation that Deputy Directors act as Information Asset Owners for their business units, its main information repository systems (SharePoint, Outlook and Teams, Preservica, IM Connect, Atamis, Microsoft Dynamics 365), its FOI search and allocation process, and its 23 agencies and public bodies. DHSC states it does not centrally hold every business unit description, every system used by individual teams, or records of which assets are searchable and by whom.

Sources

• DHSC contact and FOI guidance (GOV.UK)