Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Martin Wrigley Excerpts
Thursday 22nd January 2026

(1 day, 15 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Ward Portrait Chris Ward
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That is one of the Government’s goals. Prime Minister Carney said he thought that Canada should be Canada’s best customer. I think that Britain should be Britain’s best customer, and we should work towards that. As I say, we will publish the proposals soon and I hope that we can make progress quickly.

Martin Wrigley Portrait Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot) (LD)
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I have been trying to get records from the Cabinet Office of a meeting held between Peter Thiel of Palantir, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings on 28 August 2019. I am getting conflicting data back. Is it in the public interest that the management of this information is being outsourced to Palantir?

Chris Ward Portrait Chris Ward
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My understanding is that that has been dealt with by way of a reply to a written question that we have already put in the public domain.