Welcome to UK LLC Guidebook

Welcome to UK LLC Guidebook#

Last modified: 12 Oct 2026

The go-to resource for researchers wanting to access the UK LLC TRE, understand the data and work securely within the TRE.

UK LLC is the national Trusted Research Environment (TRE) for data linkage in longitudinal research, bringing together data from Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) and linking these to study participants’ health, administrative and place-based records. As summarised in the diagram below, UK LLC is committed to four nations coverage, is free to access and researchers can currently request access to LPS participants’ records linked to NHS England and geographic datasets (where participant permissions allow). Click on the links below to read more about:

If you are not a researcher, you may find this guide helpful: Where to find the information you need.

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