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Metropolitan Police: Palantir

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Met’s Data Protection Impact Assessment of its Unified Data Platform trial with Palantir has been reviewed and, where necessary, updated and re-approved by the Data protection Officr to re

answeredIqbal MohamedHome Office

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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
8 Jun 2026
Answer
11 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Met’s Data Protection Impact Assessment of its Unified Data Platform trial with Palantir has been reviewed and, where necessary, updated and re-approved by the Data protection Officr to re

  2. 8 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Police Forces are operationally independent, and the Home Office does not review their Data Protection Impact Assessments and does not hold this information.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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