Palantir: Data Protection

(asked on 18th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data has been made available by his Department to Palantir in relation to that company's contract with the NHS; and (a) where and (b) by whom that data is processed.


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Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 2nd June 2020

NHS England is the data controller for data processed in the NHS Data Store. Palantir is engaged by NHS England under contract as a data processor. As a data processor, the organisation only processes data under instruction from NHS England.

The NHS Data Store data list is found at the following link:

https://data.england.nhs.uk/covid-19/.

Data is Processed on the Foundry Platform which is hosted in the UK Region of Amazon Web Services.

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