Written questions
1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the contract for the Federated Data Platform includes specifications for (a) which data export formats will be used, (b) the codebase handover and (c) what the final audit will include at t
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS (a) retains the intellectual property in relation to the technical sovereignty for and (b) is not locked in to using the Federated Data Platform.
15 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the drone attack on the vessel Conscience in international waters.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Schemes Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to integrate climate and nature-related financial risk into legislative and regulatory reforms arising from the Pension Schemes Bill.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Funds: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pension schemes are encouraged to address long-term climate and biodiversity risks in their investment strategies.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Funds: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the proportion of UK pension fund assets currently allocated to climate solutions.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Funds: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Pension Schemes Bill will include provisions to (a) support and (b) incentivise investment by pension funds in climate transition-related assets.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether pseudonymised NHS data processed within the Federated Data Platform is subject to remote (a) operability and (b) telemetry access by (i) engineers and (ii) DevOps teams located outside the
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) synthetic datasets, (b) model parameters, (c) algorithm weights and (d) derived feature maps generated using NHS training data have been (i) exported to and (ii) accessed from locations
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) federated machine learning and (b) transfer learning techniques have been employed in the Federated Data Platform.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has conducted data transfer impact assessments on (a) access, (b) processing and (c) codebase maintenance undertaken by overseas Palantir staff.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) containerised services, (b) data pipelines and (c) Application Programming Interface integrations used within the Federated Data Platform are managed from (i) repositories and (ii) orch
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) encryption key management protocols and (b) physical hosting zones are in place to ensure NHS datasets remain (i) logically and (ii) geographically partitioned from Palantir’s multi-tenant
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) outputs and (b) intermediate artefacts generated via Foundry workflows are permitted to be retained by Palantir Technologies for the purpose of product refinement.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Federated Data Platform’s architectural governance model includes constraints on cross-domain identity federation between (a) NHS instances and (b) other public sector deployments of (i
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palantir: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had deductions with Palantir Technologies Ltd on (a) profit-sharing arrangements and (b) access to derivative data linked to NHS research outputs.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palantir: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has received representations from (a) Palantir Technologies Ltd and (b) its subsidiaries on combining data functions under a single NHS data contract.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has issued guidance to help ensure that AI solutions trained on NHS datasets align with NHS principles.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of his Department's white paper entitled A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, published in March 2023, CP 815, on proprietary
14 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Procurement: Political Impartiality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance on considering political neutrality when awarding government contracts.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
South West Water
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to support the development of a public-facing data access tool to allow independent verification of water quality alerts issued by South West Water.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
South West Water: Sewage
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will require South West Water to publish (a) sites receiving investment under the storm overflow programme, (b) timelines for that investment and (c) expected outcomes at each lo
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
South West Water: Sewage
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to require South West Water to (a) reinstate collaboration with Surfers Against Sewage and (b) provide real-time data to the Safer Seas and Rivers Service.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of working with commercial suppliers whose senior leadership have expressed overt political affiliations on the reputation of NHS England.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Records
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what intellectual property rights NHS England retains over (a) data models, (b) ontologies and (c) analytics solutions produced within the Federated Data Platform.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential risks of cross-contamination risk when data from multiple NHS trusts are ingested into a single cloud environment.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Palantir
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received recent correspondence from Palantir.
9 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Home Office: Palantir
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has received recent correspondence from Palantir.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Palantir
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has received recent correspondence from Palantir.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on its data cleaning specification for Palantir; and whether that specification defines how patient data are (a) extracted, (b) transformed and (c) load
Source: official written-questions record.