Palantir should not have such a “significant role” across sensitive UK defence, health and policing data systems, MPs said on Wednesday, warning that the US technology company’s presence was an “unacceptable point of weakness”.
The House of Commons technology committee called on ministers to trigger a 2027 break clause in the company’s £330mn contract to build the Federated Data Platform (FDP), a tool that connects disparate NHS data into a single system, and instead seek a UK-based provider.
Palantir’s role in public sector infrastructure has come under mounting scrutiny, owing to the company’s ties to the US defence sector and its co-founder and chief executive Alex Karp’s vocal support for Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.