Question follow-through · 125255

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of ending the NHS' Federated Data Platform contract with Palantir.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 10 Apr 2026
Target answer date: 14 Apr 2026
Answer: 28 Apr 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of ending the NHS' Federated Data Platform contract with Palantir.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2026
Answer published
The current contract for the NHS Federated Data Platform is for seven years, ending in 2031, with the initial term ending March 2027. Advice is given regularly on the contract and performance, and ministers have been given advice on the need for a decisio...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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