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Metropolitan Police: Palantir

Asked by Iqbal MohamedIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 11 June 2026UIN 7093

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Met’s Data Protection Impact Assessment of its Unified Data Platform trial with Palantir has been reviewed and, where necessary, updated and re-approved by the Data protection Officr to re

Answered by Sarah Jones

Police Forces are operationally independent, and the Home Office does not review their Data Protection Impact Assessments and does not hold this information.

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