Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government why Palantir’s contract with NHS England for the NHS COVID-19 Data Store allows that company to process sensitive personal data such as “political affiliations, religious or similar beliefs”.
Data in the NHS COVID-19 Data Store is de-identified by National Health Service staff before the data is analysed on Palantir's platform.
As such, no identifiable data is being accessed by anyone other than the NHS.
Data is only processed under instruction by NHS England and the companies involved cannot use the data for their own purposes.