Health and Social Care

Zubir Ahmed Excerpts

Wednesday 22nd April 2026 Written Corrections

The following extracts are from the Westminster Hall debate on the NHS Federated Data Platform on 16 April 2026.

[Dr Ahmed]

… The FDP is fundamentally an NHS construct. It consists of multiple contracts awarded to a number of consortia, including Palantir, Accenture, PwC, Carnall Farrar and the North of England Care System Support.

[Official Report, 16 April 2026; Vol. 783, c. 486WH.]

Written correction submitted by the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Dr Ahmed):

[Dr Ahmed]

… The FDP is fundamentally an NHS construct. It consists of multiple contracts awarded to a consortium, including Palantir, Accenture, PwC, Carnall Farrar and the North of England Care System Support.

[Dr Ahmed]

… The FDP is part of an infrastructure—it is not the infrastructure or the only infrastructure—to resolve that gap. It is improving efficiency and generating savings across the health service worth up to £2.4 billion, according to independent estimates. Those independent estimates are being further bolstered by a commissioned study by Imperial College that will look at the economic impact of the FDP. 

[Official Report, 16 April 2026; Vol. 783, c. 487WH.]

[Dr Ahmed]

… The FDP is part of an infrastructure—it is not the infrastructure or the only infrastructure—to resolve that gap. It is improving efficiency and generating savings across the health service worth up to £2.4 billion, according to our estimates. Those estimates are being further bolstered by a commissioned study by Imperial College that will look at the economic impact of the FDP.