Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to issue contracts for the management of NHS health data to Palantir.

The procurement of solutions or services for the management of National Health Service health data by the Department and NHS England is subject to open competition, in line with Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Such procurement processes are open to all suppliers. The Department holds no current contracts with Palantir and has no contract award processes underway with this supplier. NHS England holds a contract with Palantir for the Foundry platform and will shortly be launching a procurement process open to all suppliers for a new Federated Data Platform to replace that system.