Question follow-through · 7202
Metropolitan Police: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether an ethical review of the Palantir Unified Data Platform trial with the Metropolitan police has been completed.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether an ethical review of the Palantir Unified Data Platform trial with the Metropolitan police has been completed.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2026
Answer published
Police Forces are operationally independent, and the Home Office does not monitor whether ethical reviews have been conducted by Police Forces, nor has the department issued guidance on the Metropolitan Police’s governance, retention or oversight arrangem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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