Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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NHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67615More
Question: 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
Answer: Each local organisation operates its own instance of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), for which it is the data controller. These instances are designed to support local autonomy and governance, allowing organisations to opt into core products that e...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalantir: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67614More
Question: 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.
Answer: NHS England has entered into a contract with Palantir, the NHS Federated Data Platform Associated Services (FDP-AS) contract, which is available at the following link:https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0f8a65b5-23a2-4294-abb1-a7fd8efb3ad0Th...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalantir: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67613More
Question: 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.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met with representatives of Palantir on 4 June 2025. The meeting was to discuss the importance of the rollout of the Federated Data Platform, including progress towards having all trusts...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67612More
Question: 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.
Answer: Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions trained on National Health Service datasets must align with core NHS principles, including safety, fairness, transparency, and accountability. These principles are embedded in the NHS’s approach to digital innovation...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67611More
Question: 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
Answer: As set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan, most AI systems should be regulated at the point of use and our expert regulators are best placed to do so. Departments are working proactively with regulators to provide strategic direction and support them...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordProcurement: Political ImpartialityCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67610More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance on considering political neutrality when awarding government contracts.
Answer: The Procurement Act 2023 requires contracting authorities to act, and to be seen to act, with integrity, and has introduced new requirements to identify and review any potential conflicts of interest in relation to a procurement. Contracting Authorities m...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West WaterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67609More
Question: 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.
Answer: It is important that the public have access to reliable information on storm overflow discharges. The Water (Special Measures) Act introduced a duty for water companies to publish data related to discharges from all emergency overflows within one hour of ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Water: SewageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67608More
Question: 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
Answer: It is important that the public have access to reliable information on storm overflow discharges. The Water (Special Measures) Act introduced a duty for water companies to publish data related to discharges from all emergency overflows within one hour of ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Water: SewageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67607More
Question: 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.
Answer: It is important that the public have access to reliable information on storm overflow discharges. The Water (Special Measures) Act introduced a duty for water companies to publish data related to discharges from all emergency overflows within one hour of ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: ProcurementDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66356More
Question: 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.
Answer: Commercial contracts awarded by the Department, NHS England, or other National Health Service bodies are held with a company rather than individuals.NHS bodies set their own policies on how to award contracts, but they must do so in line with the law, spe...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical RecordsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66355More
Question: 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.
Answer: Within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), the National Health Service retains the Intellectual Property of the solutions it funds or develops, including all associated data models, ontologies, including the NHS Canonical data model, products, and anal...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66354More
Question: 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.
Answer: In order to assess the risk and impact to data privacy, all Federated Data Platform (FDP) installations are required to complete a Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA). An overarching DPIA for the FDP was also undertaken. Each FDP Tenant is a logically s...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received recent correspondence from Palantir.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care received a letter from Louis Mosley, the Executive Vice President for the United Kingdom and Europe of Palantir Technologies, on 3 March 2025, offering to meet to discuss the roll-out of...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: PalantirHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has received recent correspondence from Palantir.
Answer: Home Office ministers and officials receive correspondence from a range of businesses and other organisations on a regular basis.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: PalantirDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has received recent correspondence from Palantir.
Answer: The Secretary of State has received recent correspondence from Palantir and will be responding in due course.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66350More
Question: 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
Answer: NHS England has not had any discussions with my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on this matter. Each local organisation has their own instance of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) for which they are the data controlle...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66349More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of delaying Phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme on (a) the local economy and (b) transport resilience.
Answer: The Spending Review considered and prioritised investment across all government spending, taking account of business cases and affordability, including economic and social impacts. The Government does not undertake formal consultation with regional stakeh...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consultations were undertaken with regional stakeholders prior to the decision not to fund Phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme.
Answer: The Spending Review considered and prioritised investment across all government spending, taking account of business cases and affordability, including economic and social impacts. The Government does not undertake formal consultation with regional stakeh...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has set a deadline for Network Rail to produce a revised proposal for Phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme.
Answer: We are continuing to fund drainage and ground investigations that will provide Network Rail with detailed data on the stability of the cliffs above that section of route and will inform their consideration of a proposal for a long-term solution in due cou...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will allocate funding to Phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme in the next spending review.
Answer: We have set out our plans for this Spending Review period and will consider the next Spending Review at the appropriate time.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether alternative (a) funding models and (b) timelines are under consideration for delivering the final stage of the South West Rail Resilience Programme.
Answer: We are continuing to fund drainage and ground investigations that will provide Network Rail with detailed data on the stability of the cliffs above that section of route and will inform their consideration of a proposal for a long-term solution in due cou...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, under what circumstances Phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme would receive funding.
Answer: We are continuing to fund drainage and ground investigations that will provide Network Rail with detailed data on the stability of the cliffs above that section of route and will inform their consideration of a proposal for a long-term solution in due cou...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department plans to take to improve resilience along the stretch between Parsons Tunnel and Teignmouth pending the completion of Phase 5.
Answer: We are continuing to fund drainage and ground investigations that will provide Network Rail with detailed data on the stability of the cliffs above that section of route and will inform their consideration of a proposal for a long-term solution in due cou...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department commissioned an independent assessment of the viability of proposed engineering solutions for Phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme (a) during and (b) since the Spending Rev
Answer: We are continuing to fund drainage and ground investigations that will provide Network Rail with detailed data on the stability of the cliffs above that section of route and will inform their consideration of a proposal for a long-term solution in due cou...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has taken steps with Network Rail to develop a proposal for the Teignmouth to Parsons Tunnel section of the South West Rail Resilience Programme since the Spending Review 2025.
Answer: We are continuing to fund drainage and ground investigations that will provide Network Rail with detailed data on the stability of the cliffs above that section of route and will inform their consideration of a proposal for a long-term solution in due cou...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
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