Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether an ethical review of the Palantir Unified Data Platform trial with the Metropolitan police has been completed.

Police Forces are operationally independent, and the Home Office does not monitor whether ethical reviews have been conducted by Police Forces, nor has the department issued guidance on the Metropolitan Police’s governance, retention or oversight arrangements for continuous integrity screening in the trial.

However, the Home Office has provided support to the National Data and Analytics Office (NDAO) in the NPCC to issue guidance to forces on the procurement of data integration and exploitation tools, covering commercial best practice, technical requirements to support interoperability and data protection impact considerations.