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NHS: Databases

Commons · Question 67619 · Tabled 14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has conducted data transfer impact assessments on (a) access, (b) processing and (c) codebase maintenance undertaken by overseas Palantir staff.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 Jul 2025

There is no overseas processing of data of any type by the Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, and therefore transfer impact assessments are not required. This is laid out in the FDP Information Governance Framework, which is available at the followi...