Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) the use of artificial intelligence tools within the Federated Data Platform and (b) any capabilities for (i) summarisation, (b) research, (c) inference, and (d) timeline generation from patient data.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) includes artificial intelligence (AI) capability through the Artificial Intelligence Platform, and this supports AI-enabled workflows within the NHS FDP, subject to governance, access controls, information governance, and clinical safety requirements. These tools may be used to improve workflows, reduce administration time, support data pipeline development, and summarise information.
Further information is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/security-privacy/nhs-fdp-information-governance-framework/local-fdp-products/artificial-intelligence-assisted-discharge-summary-ai-assisted-dsum-fdp-product-privacy-notice/
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England's guidance entitled Preventing unlawful access to patient records, published on the 8th July applies to a) data held in General Practice, b) data accessed from pharmacies participating in Pharmacy First, c) data held in the Federated Data Platform, d) NHS England national staff using the Federated Data Platform, and e) Palantir staff using the Federated Data Platform.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Stopping unlawful access to records guidance for health and care professionals applies to any patient data, and to anyone working in the National Health Service, or under contract to the NHS, with the potential to access patient records. This would include data held in general practice, data accessed from pharmacies participating in Pharmacy First, data held in the Federated Data Platform, NHS England national staff using the Federated Data Platform, and Palantir staff using the Federated Data Platform. The guidance can be found at the following link:
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for a list of models available of use on the NHS AI Platform, and the name of any intermediary entities between the NHS user and the model providers.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
There currently is no National Health Service artificial intelligence platform. The Department therefore does not hold a list of models available for use on such a platform, nor a list of intermediary entities between NHS users and model providers for that purpose.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the HL1033, 6 July 2026, how many times the audit trail for access to data on the National Data Integration Tenant has been reviewed or audited since its implementation, and what the outcomes of those audits were.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The current access management process for the National Data Integration Tenant (NDIT) was implemented in November 2025. All access and user activity is strictly monitored and audited by a dedicated NHS England team as part of a regular assurance process, as detailed in NHS England's response to the National Data Guardian, available at the following link:
Audit logs are reviewed to confirm the actions undertaken by users. In addition, comprehensive access audits have been carried out in December 2025, for all NDIT users; and in March and May 2026, for a subset of users.
These additional audits have confirmed that users have the appropriate permissions in line with approved access, that access corresponds to the projects established on the NDIT, that the level of access remains appropriate and necessary, and that Security Check clearance has been correctly evidenced and remains in date.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional recurrent funding will be provided alongside implementation of the proposed NHS dental contract reforms.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Secretary of State for Wales
We are committed to reforming the dental contract by the end of this Parliament, with a focus on matching resources to need, improving access, promoting prevention, and rewarding dentists fairly, while enabling the whole dental team to work to the top of their capability.
The financial pressures and the cost of new commitments for the National Health Service are analysed as part of the Spending Review process. The 2025 Spending Review sets departmental budgets for day-to-day spending up to 2028/29 and for capital for five years to 2029/30. This level of funding growth is intended to support the NHS in delivering the Government’s priorities, including commitments set out in the Government’s Plan for Change. Further detail is provided at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spending-review-2025-document/spending-review-2025-html
The Government has committed to hold a Spending Review every two years. The process for the next Spending Review, due to be held in 2027, will be set in due course.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of NHS dental funding levels on the recruitment and retention of dentists providing NHS care.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Secretary of State for Wales
Since July 2024, the Government has been rebuilding a broken National Health Service dentistry system. We have delivered 1.8 million more dental treatments and reduced the underspend from £392 million in 2023/24 to just £36 million in 2024/25, maximising the treatments provided for taxpayers’ money.
We have brought into force a package of reforms this year to address some of the most pressing issues that dentists and dental teams have been experiencing, including rewarding them more fairly for treating patients with urgent and complex needs.
Strengthening the workforce is key to our ambitions to rebuild NHS dentistry. We are increasing the supply of dentists through a sustained expansion of 50 new dental school places and an increase in exams to allow 2,000 more internationally qualified dentists to practise in the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the response to proposed planning reforms relating to permitted development rights and the National Planning Policy Framework for telecommunications infrastructure.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Questions UIN 124803 on 20 April 2026.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to accelerate proposed planning reforms relating to permitted development rights and the National Planning Policy Framework for telecommunications infrastructure.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Questions UIN 124803 on 20 April 2026.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many meetings he has had with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology to discuss planning reforms relating to permitted development rights and the National Planning Policy Framework for telecommunications infrastructure.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has not had any meetings with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology to discuss planning reforms relating to permitted development rights and the National Planning Policy Framework for telecommunications infrastructure.
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to support businesses reliant on gas that are unable to transition to electric, to support them moving to hydrogen.
Answered by Michael Shanks - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
We recognise that hydrogen will play an important but focused role in decarbonising hard‑to‑electrify industrial sectors, particularly within industrial clusters where shared transport and storage infrastructure can be developed efficiently.
The Hydrogen Production Business Model incentivises investment in new low carbon hydrogen production and encourages users to switch to low carbon hydrogen by making it a price competitive decarbonisation option.