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1607545

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date	24/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Palantir: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the legal and reputational risks of NHS England’s decision to instruct hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL6826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The Faster Data Flows pilot makes use of data infrastructure (Data Management Platform Services) already procured by NHS England. The pilot aims to collect data already submitted via legacy collection systems with an aim to reduce data latency and will not collect any data from providers which they are not already asked to provide.</p><p> </p><p>The General Data Protection Regulation requires a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) to be completed by a data controller to demonstrate how they will comply with data protection law and in doing so identify and minimise data protection risks. NHS England and NHS Digital, as they existed separately at the relevant time, have produced DPIAs for the Faster Data Flows pilot.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 03/04/2023 11:33:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1607546

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Palantir: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, what categories of patient data Palantir will have access to.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL6827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>Palantir does not have access to data, identifiable or otherwise, held within the Foundry platform instances licensed to NHS England. Foundry, which is the platform used for Faster Data Flows, is a ‘Software as a Service’ platform licenced to NHS England as a product and integrated into NHS England systems. The National Health Service always remains the data controller and only NHS organisations have access to the data and otherwise determine access rights.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 03/04/2023 11:46:37 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1607547

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Palantir: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, whether hospitals will be required to seek patients’ consent for the sharing of their data.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL6828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2023 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has directed NHS England to undertake data collections. The directions create a legal obligation for the NHS England collection and processing and as a result consent is not required.</p><p> </p><p>The Faster Data Flows pilot aims to collect data already submitted via legacy collection systems with an aim to reduce data latency. The pilot will not collect any data from providers which they are not already asked to provide, as it is the collection method which is changing, not the information being collected.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 12/04/2023 11:10:37 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1607548

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Palantir: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to NHS England’s instruction to hospitals to use Palantir’s Faster Data Flows database, what safeguards they will put in place to protect patient privacy.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL6829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>All uses of data by the National Health Service must be ethical, for the public good, and comply with data protection law. This means there must always be a valid lawful basis for the collection and processing of personal information as defined under data protection legislation. Palantir only operates under the instruction of NHS England when processing data on the Foundry platform and does not have access to data, identifiable or otherwise, held within the Foundry platform instances licensed to NHS England nor are they permitted to use or share it for their own purposes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will only share de-identified data with internal NHS England data analysts, integrated care boards and the NHS Providers that provided the data. De-identification practices mean that personal identifiers are removed from datasets to protect patient confidentiality. This includes techniques such as aggregation, anonymisation, and pseudonymisation. The level of de-identification applied to data may vary based on user roles and requirements for accessing the data. This is in line with guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office as well as the General Data Protection Regulation.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 03/04/2023 11:49:50 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1607549

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Palantir: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the process for selecting a company to provide the NHS England data platform; and which other companies they considered bids from before awarding the service to Palantir.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL6830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2023 answer text <p>A procurement process for the ‘Provision of Data Management Platform Services’ was carried out by NHS England ahead of the contract award in December 2020, with a route to market evaluation identifying the G-Cloud 11 framework as the optimal route.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the G-Cloud process, selection criteria helped to identify 19 suppliers with potential solutions. A process of clarification and evaluation informed by subject matter experts (SMEs) against agreed functional, non-functional, and financial criteria was carried out. The identity of bidders is not made public as this information is commercially sensitive.</p><p> </p><p>The nine suppliers who met the minimum technical threshold were invited to give demonstrations in October 2020, following which they were evaluated against a set of criteria agreed by the SMEs. Palantir was subsequently selected as the preferred supplier based on receiving the highest score in the evaluation.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 11/04/2023 14:52:07 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron