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Palantir: Contracts

Asked by James CartlidgeConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 24 February 2026UIN 113372

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the £240,600,000 cost of the MOD Palantir Enterprise Agreement signed on 30 December 2025 was budgeted in the (a) previous or (b) current financial year.

Answered by Luke Pollard

The £240,600,000 cost of the Palantir Enterprise Agreement signed on 30 December 2025 falls within the Department’s existing delegated budgets for the next three financial years. No separate HM Treasury approval was required, and the Agreement was funded through the Ministry of Defence’s established financial planning and governance processes.

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