If you state in this question that your application is research, then you require a Research Sponsor and Q 2.4 must be completed. In addition, ethical review must be considered and the legal bases for processing data, under data protection law, must be for research. 3.1.05 Please indicate the sources of the data which the proposal seeks to access. This might include one or more of the sources listed, and you should select each that applies. These should be further outlined and justified in your answers in Q 3.1.06 to Q 3.1.11. If the sources of the data it is proposed to access are not listed here, please include these in the 'other' details box. These sources should also be consistent with the identity of the data controller for the different datasets requested in Q 4.2. If you request NRS births or deaths, please tick these boxes even if it is for cohort generation and/or linkage or if you are getting the data from the copies of these data held within PHS. If you tick NHS Central Registry, you must fill in section 4.4 and ensure that NHSCR are aware of the data request; they should have given you a reference number, which is required in section 4.4. If you tick CHI Database, you must fill in section 4.6. Please note that the use of CHI database is not for the use of CHI for data linkage or matched controls, but for other information. 3.1.05a Please give details of any data that will be requested from other data controllers (e.g. Scottish Government, Local Authorities, other public sector administrative datasets). If other, please tick the box and state from where the data will be obtained. This is to give the reviewers an indication of the full scope of the data requested for the proposal. 3.1.05b Please give details of the requested data and provide evidence of the data controller approval, once it has been obtained. 3.1.06 Please provide a clear and concise lay outline of the proposal. You should use clear concise language which can be easily understood by the public. This is a stand-alone lay summary to inform the public of the use of their health data. This should include why it is required and how the outcomes will benefit the public. All abbreviations should be explained. Your explanation should not extend beyond 250 words of text. If you are using extracts from study protocols or other relevant existing documentation, please ensure that it is relevant to the section. Please note that the content of this section will be published on the HSC-PBPP website, to inform the public of the types of proposals that use NHSS data. 3.1.07 Please provide clear, specific aims and objectives or goals of the proposal. This can be done using bullet points. If this is a research proposal you may wish to consider using the PICO principle: Population / Participants, Interventions / Indicators, Comparator / Control and Outcome when responding to this question. You should use clear concise language which can be easily understood by colleagues and public partners without a clinical background or extensive knowledge and expertise in epidemiology or health research. If you are using extracts from study protocols or other relevant existing documentation, please ensure that it is relevant to the section. 3.1.08 Please describe the envisaged benefits to the public and / or patients. This section must outline why the proposal, and the access to data it proposes, is necessary and to demonstrate a clear connection between this work, its expected outcomes and the benefit to patients or the wider public which will result thereafter. You should use clear, concise language which can be easily understood by colleagues and public partners without a clinical background or extensive knowledge and expertise in epidemiology or health research. If you are using extracts from study protocols or other relevant existing documentation, please ensure that it is relevant to the section and easily understood.