Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on NHS trusts’ access to existing analytical tools, insights and operational capabilities delivered through the Federated Data Platform should the current contract with Palantir not be extended.

I refer the Hon Member to the published details regarding the NHS Federated Data Platform contract available on the Contract Finder website and explained at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/security-privacy/contract-explainer/

As a general rule, the Government does not respond to hypothetical scenarios regarding existing contractual arrangements.