Question follow-through · 68140

Palantir: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of (a) call-off contracts, (b) contract values and (c) delivery milestones awarded to Palantir Technologies under Crown Commercial Service frameworks since 2020.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
17 Jul 2025
Answer
21 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of (a) call-off contracts, (b) contract values and (c) delivery milestones awarded to Palantir Technologies under Crown Commercial Service frameworks since 2020.

  2. 17 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Crown Commercial Service (CCS) does not maintain a centralised list of all call-off contracts, values, or delivery milestones awarded to Palantir Technologies. Details of individual call-off contracts, including contract values and delivery milestones, ar...

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