Martin Wrigley MP: written questions

Written questions

• NHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65989More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients who are data controllers under the national data opt-out can (a) review and (b) challenge how their records are processed within the Federated Data Platform.

  Answer: The Federated Data Platform fully complies with the National Data Opt-Out policy. Confidential patient information is not used in the national instance, and only in a local instance for the purposes of direct care, and therefore the National Data Opt-Out ...

  Answered 14 Jul 2025

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• NHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65988More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to verify that derivative analytical outputs from the NHS Federated Digital Platform cannot be reverse-engineered to reveal identifiable patient data.

  Answer: All analytics products created by NHS England, including those developed on the NHS Federated Data Platform, are subject to a full Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA) as part of the design and development process, with further information available at t...

  Answered 14 Jul 2025

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• NHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65987More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS-funded analytics solutions created on the Federated Data Platform have been (a) patented and (b) registered by (i) Palantir Technologies and (ii) its subsidiaries.

  Answer: Within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), where the National Health Service commissions and funds the development of solutions, the intellectual property of these solutions remains with the NHS.Under the FDP-Associated Services Agreement between NHS E...

  Answered 14 Jul 2025

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• NHS: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65986More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients will be consulted on changes to purpose-based access policies during the contract with Palantir.

  Answer: The National Health Service is committed to maintaining public trust and transparency in the use of patient data and to ensuring that patients and the public are informed and engaged in decisions that affect how their data is used. This aligns with NHS En...

  Answered 14 Jul 2025

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• NHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65985More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to periodically review NHS AI models to ensure continued alignment with (a) data protection and (b) clinical safety standards.

  Answer: There are strict safeguards in place throughout the National Health Service to protect data. All providers of services which handle patient data must protect that data in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protectio...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• NHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65984More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of Federated Data Platform development work is carried out by UK-based engineers; and whether data processing beyond AWS input processes is off-shored.

  Answer: All NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) development work is carried out by United Kingdom based engineers, therefore there is no offshoring. This is documented in the contract, Information Governance Framework, and Memorandum of Understanding. It is a contr...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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• NHS: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65983More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Palantir's involvement on the NHS model of being free at the point of use.

  Answer: The provision by Palantir Industries of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) has no impact on National Health Service care being free at the point of use.Palantir is a technology supplier providing the underlying technology that supports the FDP. They do...

  Answered 14 Jul 2025

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• Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65626More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of aligning the the UK and EU carbon trading systems on meeting the UK's climate targets.

  Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that any future linkage of the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes remains consistent with the UK’s climate obligations and will not prevent us from pursuing higher ambition. The “Common Understanding” text agreed b...

  Answered 15 Jul 2025

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