Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards are in place to prevent improper access or influence over Government decision-making by representatives of Palantir Technologies UK.

I refer the Hon. Member to Paragraph 1.4 of the Ministerial Code regarding the principles that must be adhered to by ministerial decision makers, and to the equivalent provisions set out in the Civil Service Code.