Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, what categories of patient data Palantir will have access to.

Palantir does not have access to data, identifiable or otherwise, held within the Foundry platform instances licensed to NHS England. Foundry, which is the platform used for Faster Data Flows, is a ‘Software as a Service’ platform licenced to NHS England as a product and integrated into NHS England systems. The National Health Service always remains the data controller and only NHS organisations have access to the data and otherwise determine access rights.