Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people who do not work for NHS England have been granted access rights to identifiable patient data on or via the Federated Data Platform, broken down by the firm or organisation that employs them.

The National Data Integration Tenant is NHS England’s secure platform for collecting and managing national health and care data. It replaces multiple legacy systems with one unified, secure process, reducing burden for National Health Service teams while ensuring the right data is available at the right time to support faster decisions and safer care. Data is pseudonymised using Privacy Enhancing Technologies and then routed to the National NHS Federated Data Platform where it is used for analysis, insights, and decision-making.

There are three Palantir contractors with administrative permissions under the instruction of NHS England as the data controller.

In addition, data engineering activities are carried out by twenty-two non-NHS England contractors, nineteen employed by Palantir or the supplier consortium, one employed by Mastek, and two by NHS trusts. They have limited project-based access under the instruction of NHS England. Individual access is strictly role‑based depending on the project and is time limited.