Martin Wrigley MP: written questions
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Members: CorrespondenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot of 3 June 2025.
Answer: A response for both letters will be sent to the Hon Member shortly. I apologise for the delay.
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme is due to end.
Answer: From 4 February 2025, individuals in the UK under a Ukraine visa scheme have been eligible to apply for the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme, granting an additional 18 months’ permission to stay in the UK as well as access to work, benefits, heal...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to ensure that (a) access logs and (b) permissions related to NHS data processed on Palantir platforms are independently auditable.
Answer: The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) is built with robust security and privacy controls to ensure that access to National Health Service data is tightly governed and independently auditable. All user activity within the FDP environment is logged for audi...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalantir: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68141More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the compliance of Palantir Technologies Ltd with transparency obligations under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 prior to 2021.
Answer: The transparency obligations prior to 2021 would have been managed directly by the awarding department or contracting authority. Details of Government contracts awarded prior to 2021 above £10,000 in Central Government, and £25,000 in the wider public sec...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalantir: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68140More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of (a) call-off contracts, (b) contract values and (c) delivery milestones awarded to Palantir Technologies under Crown Commercial Service frameworks since 2020.
Answer: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) does not maintain a centralised list of all call-off contracts, values, or delivery milestones awarded to Palantir Technologies. Details of individual call-off contracts, including contract values and delivery milestones, ar...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any NHS trusts have opted out of participating in the Federated Data Platform; and what steps NHS England is taking to monitor trust participation.
Answer: The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) began its national roll-out in April 2024, following a pilot phase that commenced in 2022. NHS England has invited all National Health Service trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs) to develop plans for how they wil...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS trusts have received (a) financial support and (b) incentive payments to enable uptake of the Federated Data Platform.
Answer: NHS England has procured and paid for licences to provide a Federated Data Platform instance for all trusts and integrated care boards for the full duration of the contract. This includes providing onboarding and implementation support and ongoing access ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the contract for the Federated Data Platform will require Palantir to publish an open standard data schema to enable interoperability with alternative platforms.
Answer: The contract for the Federated Data Platform and Associated Services (FDP AS) includes provisions to ensure interoperability and support for market development through the use of open standards. As part of this, the platform is underpinned by the NHS Cano...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the contract for the Federated Data Platform includes specifications for (a) which data export formats will be used, (b) the codebase handover and (c) what the final audit will include at t
Answer: The contract for the Federated Data Platform and Associated Services (FDP-AS) includes provisions to ensure transparency, interoperability, and a smooth transition at the end of the contract period. These provisions are designed to mitigate vendor lock-in...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS (a) retains the intellectual property in relation to the technical sovereignty for and (b) is not locked in to using the Federated Data Platform.
Answer: The National Health Service retains the intellectual property of solutions it funds or develops, including all associated data models, products, and analytical solutions of the NHS Federated Data Platform, and the background intellectual property remains ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the drone attack on the vessel Conscience in international waters.
Answer: His Majesty's Government officials were in touch with the Maltese Authorities regarding the incident and understand there were no casualties and that no British nationals were aboard this vessel. We continue to discuss with Israeli counterparts the urgent...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Schemes BillDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to integrate climate and nature-related financial risk into legislative and regulatory reforms arising from the Pension Schemes Bill.
Answer: While the Department does not hold data on the proportion of UK pension fund assets allocated to climate solutions, we do require pension schemes to evaluate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors, including climate change, in their investmen...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pension schemes are encouraged to address long-term climate and biodiversity risks in their investment strategies.
Answer: While the Department does not hold data on the proportion of UK pension fund assets allocated to climate solutions, we do require pension schemes to evaluate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors, including climate change, in their investmen...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the proportion of UK pension fund assets currently allocated to climate solutions.
Answer: While the Department does not hold data on the proportion of UK pension fund assets allocated to climate solutions, we do require pension schemes to evaluate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors, including climate change, in their investmen...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Pension Schemes Bill will include provisions to (a) support and (b) incentivise investment by pension funds in climate transition-related assets.
Answer: While the Department does not hold data on the proportion of UK pension fund assets allocated to climate solutions, we do require pension schemes to evaluate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors, including climate change, in their investmen...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether pseudonymised NHS data processed within the Federated Data Platform is subject to remote (a) operability and (b) telemetry access by (i) engineers and (ii) DevOps teams located outside the
Answer: There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and this includes synthetic data and all functionalities. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the following...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) synthetic datasets, (b) model parameters, (c) algorithm weights and (d) derived feature maps generated using NHS training data have been (i) exported to and (ii) accessed from locations
Answer: There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and this includes synthetic data and all functionalities. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the following...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) federated machine learning and (b) transfer learning techniques have been employed in the Federated Data Platform.
Answer: Neither federated machine learning nor transfer learning techniques are currently utilised within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).The FDP is designed to support operational use cases such as elective recovery, care coordination, and discharge planni...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has conducted data transfer impact assessments on (a) access, (b) processing and (c) codebase maintenance undertaken by overseas Palantir staff.
Answer: There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and therefore transfer impact assessments are not required. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the followi...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) containerised services, (b) data pipelines and (c) Application Programming Interface integrations used within the Federated Data Platform are managed from (i) repositories and (ii) orch
Answer: There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and therefore transfer impact assessments are not required. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the followi...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) encryption key management protocols and (b) physical hosting zones are in place to ensure NHS datasets remain (i) logically and (ii) geographically partitioned from Palantir’s multi-tenant
Answer: Access to National Health Service health and social care data within the Federated Data Platform (FDP) is tightly controlled. The FDP incorporates advanced Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET), which has been procured from a separate supplier to ensure inde...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) outputs and (b) intermediate artefacts generated via Foundry workflows are permitted to be retained by Palantir Technologies for the purpose of product refinement.
Answer: All products, outputs, and intermediate artefacts generated within the Federated Data Platform, funded by the National Health Service under the NHS Federated Data Platform Associated Services (FDP-AS) agreement, are the intellectual property of the NHS, a...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Federated Data Platform’s architectural governance model includes constraints on cross-domain identity federation between (a) NHS instances and (b) other public sector deployments of (i
Answer: Each local organisation operates its own instance of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), for which it is the data controller. These instances are designed to support local autonomy and governance, allowing organisations to opt into core products that e...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalantir: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had deductions with Palantir Technologies Ltd on (a) profit-sharing arrangements and (b) access to derivative data linked to NHS research outputs.
Answer: NHS England has entered into a contract with Palantir, the NHS Federated Data Platform Associated Services (FDP-AS) contract, which is available at the following link:https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0f8a65b5-23a2-4294-abb1-a7fd8efb3ad0Th...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalantir: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has received representations from (a) Palantir Technologies Ltd and (b) its subsidiaries on combining data functions under a single NHS data contract.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met with representatives of Palantir on 4 June 2025. The meeting was to discuss the importance of the rollout of the Federated Data Platform, including progress towards having all trusts...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
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