Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
South West Main Line: DevonDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish her Department's analysis of phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Programme.
Answer: The Department does not publish analysis of rail enhancement projects whilst they remain in development.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what milestones are included in the Federated Data Platform contract to (a) facilitate orderly off-boarding and (b) data migration to an alternative provider.
Answer: The NHS Federated Data Platform Associated Services (FDP-AS) agreement has a comprehensive Exit Management Schedule which sets out the contract terms for exit, including the requirements on Palantir to support in re-procurement planning, exit, and transit...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has stress-tested the portability of (a) data schemas, (b) application programming interfaces and (c) dashboards for use on other vendor platforms.
Answer: NHS Federated Data Platform products are built using open-source technologies, for instance Python and Spark. End-user products can also be built using open market frameworks, for instance React, interfacing to the platform Application Programming Interfa...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients who are data controllers under the national data opt-out can (a) review and (b) challenge how their records are processed within the Federated Data Platform.
Answer: The Federated Data Platform fully complies with the National Data Opt-Out policy. Confidential patient information is not used in the national instance, and only in a local instance for the purposes of direct care, and therefore the National Data Opt-Out ...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to verify that derivative analytical outputs from the NHS Federated Digital Platform cannot be reverse-engineered to reveal identifiable patient data.
Answer: All analytics products created by NHS England, including those developed on the NHS Federated Data Platform, are subject to a full Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA) as part of the design and development process, with further information available at t...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65987More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS-funded analytics solutions created on the Federated Data Platform have been (a) patented and (b) registered by (i) Palantir Technologies and (ii) its subsidiaries.
Answer: Within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), where the National Health Service commissions and funds the development of solutions, the intellectual property of these solutions remains with the NHS.Under the FDP-Associated Services Agreement between NHS E...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65986More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients will be consulted on changes to purpose-based access policies during the contract with Palantir.
Answer: The National Health Service is committed to maintaining public trust and transparency in the use of patient data and to ensuring that patients and the public are informed and engaged in decisions that affect how their data is used. This aligns with NHS En...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to periodically review NHS AI models to ensure continued alignment with (a) data protection and (b) clinical safety standards.
Answer: There are strict safeguards in place throughout the National Health Service to protect data. All providers of services which handle patient data must protect that data in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protectio...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65984More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of Federated Data Platform development work is carried out by UK-based engineers; and whether data processing beyond AWS input processes is off-shored.
Answer: All NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) development work is carried out by United Kingdom based engineers, therefore there is no offshoring. This is documented in the contract, Information Governance Framework, and Memorandum of Understanding. It is a contr...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65983More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Palantir's involvement on the NHS model of being free at the point of use.
Answer: The provision by Palantir Industries of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) has no impact on National Health Service care being free at the point of use.Palantir is a technology supplier providing the underlying technology that supports the FDP. They do...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of aligning the the UK and EU carbon trading systems on meeting the UK's climate targets.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that any future linkage of the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes remains consistent with the UK’s climate obligations and will not prevent us from pursuing higher ambition. The “Common Understanding” text agreed b...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIncontinence: DevonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support people with bladder and bowel control conditions in Devon.
Answer: All providers in Devon are asked to follow the formulary within the services they provide. The formulary provides information on continence care, with further information available at the following two links: https://southwest.devonformularyguidance.nhs.u...
Answered 12 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: Disclosure of InformationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that public services do not use non-disclosure agreements on whistleblowers.
Answer: There are existing legal limitations to what NDAs can be used for, and an NDA would be unenforceable if it attempted to prevent a worker from making a protected disclosure, i.e., whistleblowing.However, we have heard calls for change and taken action. We ...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Agency: Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency has spent delivering biodiversity net gain (a) above and (b) below mean high water on projects related to flood defence in the latest period for which d
Answer: The Environment Agency has committed to delivering natural flood management schemes and meeting statutory requirements on habitat creation and biodiversity net gain (BNG), as part of its Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Programme. This wi...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Agency: Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency has spent on (a) mitigation and (b) compensation for flood defence projects in each of the last three years.
Answer: The table below shows the amount that the Environment Agency has spent on compensation payments in financial years 2023-24 and 2022-23. This data is based on costs incurred that were classified within transactional data as compensation payments, so may no...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Management OrganisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64494More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of hours the Environment Agency has spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation on marine licence applications in e
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) uses Oracle Time and Labour (OTL) compliance recording to record against their various workstreams. There are many different OTL codes that record the type of advice provided to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) for mari...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Management OrganisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of hours Natural England has spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation on marine licence applications in each of
Answer: The table below shows data from Natural England’s Casework Tracker (CWT) for the number of recorded hours spent providing advice to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) from 2020-2025. Both calendar and financial year splits are included. These data i...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Management OrganisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hours the Marine Management Organisation has spent determining (a) Band 2 and (b) Band 3 marine licence applications in each of the last five years for which data is available
Answer: Sub-part2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25Total(a) harbour revision order1,447.751,208.751,576.001,515.752,326.508,074.75(b) harbour empowerment order50.0059.25208.50185.004.25507.00 *Total1,497.751,268.001,784.501,700.752,330.758,074.75(a) harbour revis...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Management OrganisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many marine licenses were determined by the Marine Management Organisation for (a) removal of abandoned vessels, (b) firework displays, (c) maintenance of bridges or cantilevered s
Answer: Sub-part202020212022202320242025(a) Removal of abandoned vessels000000(b) firework displays000000(c) maintenance of bridges or cantilevered structures141324222210(d) installation of eco moorings010100(e) coastal and flood defence works in each of the las...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Management Organisation: Fees and ChargesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much income the Marine Management Organisation have received from charges for (a) harbour revision orders and (b) harbour empowerment order applications in each of the last five ye
Answer: Sub-part2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25Total(a) harbour revision order1,447.751,208.751,576.001,515.752,326.508,074.75(b) harbour empowerment order50.0059.25208.50185.004.25507.00 *Total1,497.751,268.001,784.501,700.752,330.758,074.75(a) harbour revis...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMarine Management OrganisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hours the Marine Management Organisation have spent processing (a) harbour revision orders and (b) harbour empowerment orders in each of the last five years for which data is
Answer: Sub-part2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25Total(a) harbour revision order1,447.751,208.751,576.001,515.752,326.508,074.75(b) harbour empowerment order50.0059.25208.50185.004.25507.00 *Total1,497.751,268.001,784.501,700.752,330.758,074.75(a) harbour revis...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTable OfficeHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64356More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the Commission is taking to support the work of the House of Commons Table Office; and what assessment the Commission has made of the contributi
Answer: In addition to producing the Order Paper each day and receiving applications for adjournment debates in the House and Westminster Hall, since the beginning of this Parliament, the Table Office has processed nearly 74,000 Questions for Written Answer and o...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: PalantirDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contracts their Department has with Palantir.
Answer: Details of central government contracts above £12,000 for procurements commenced before 24 February 2025 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts procured under the Procurement Act 2023, which came into force on 24 February 2025, are published on the ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: PalantirMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts their Department has with Palantir.
Answer: Details of central Government contracts above £12,000 for procurements commenced before 24 February 2025 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts procured under the Procurement Act 2023, which came into force on 24 February 2025, are published on the ...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: PalantirCabinet OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64324More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contracts their Department has with Palantir.
Answer: Details of central government contracts above £12,000 for procurements commenced before 24 February 2025 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts procured under the Procurement Act 2023, which came into force on 24 February 2025, are published on the ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
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