Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what payment schedule is set out in the Federated Data Platform contract with Palantir; what contractual milestones, deliverables or performance criteria trigger payments; and what proportion of the total contract value has been paid to date against each such milestone.

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.