Speeches by Coleman.

“Given that you are aware of them, and they raise serious questions about the effectiveness of Palantir, and that you are reviewing whether the contract should end next March or be continued, do you agree that it would be helpful to have an independent audit of Palantir’s effectiveness before any renewal decision is tak…”

“Given that NHS England has only just accepted in June—and suddenly put in seven places on its website—that the claims that it has been making for Palantir are not causally robust, do we need an outside, independent review of the situation?”

“Not in the Bill.”

“Which would you dispute?”

“I am asking a question to get an answer. If you think it might not be effective, and that is what these analyses are suggesting, would you not want to look in more detail before deciding whether to extend?”

“Just one more question. On the single patient record, I believe you will have received guidance from the Cabinet Office that you should be looking at British suppliers for AI, one of the four priority areas. When it comes to the single patient record that you are going to be building, do you intend to encourage UK supp…”

“I was saying that having a mayor instead would not be beneficial. You could have a mayor alongside. If they are both there on a statutory basis, I could see how that might work.”

“We brought an amendment to the Committee considering the Bill, which the Minister opposed. The fact of the matter is that, statutorily, the mayor will have a role on the four ICBs in London—he will somehow split himself into four bits—whereas the local authorities, which have all the budgetary and statutory responsibil…”

“They have three; we argued for that. I was on the north-west London ICB. We argued for that and we got that. The statutory right to have those three in north-west London, which is now being merged with central London and 9.3 million people, will go. The same applies to the other three ICBs in London: local authorities …”

“I am not a doctor, but thank you so much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Perhaps I am a doctor from the university of life—who knows? I pay tribute to Baroness Amos for this excellent report, and to my right hon. Friend the Member for Ilford North (Wes Streeting) for commissioning it. It is a remarkable piece of work. It follow…”

“The Ockenden report is shocking and its findings are repellent. As my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton) said, it is shocking how many of its findings also featured in a report on black maternal health that the Health and Social Care Committee, on which I sit, published last September. …”

“How long do you think it would take to run a new procurement?”

“According to today’s FT, most of its benefit is to Chelsea and Westminster hospital, which I must declare is in my constituency. It is getting 84% of the benefit.”

“One month, two months, three months, six months?”

“That is interesting. There is time. If I can explore the issue of time, I don’t know if you are aware that, in February 2026, NHS England awarded a contract to Imperial College Projects—that is not Imperial NHS trust; it is Imperial College London—to independently evaluate the FDP, including the economic impact. Howeve…”

“The question I am asking—forgive me, if I am not being clear, I do apologise—if you take the decision not to extend Palantir’s contract from next March, you have to take that decision by December, but if you leave it till then, it will be quite late to run a procurement. If you are minded to take the decision not to ex…”

“Over 15 months? Are we saying from that, given what you have learned, and you have obviously learned a lot working with the current provider—do you think it would take over 15 months to run a new procurement if you chose to do that?”

“Talking about British companies, I just want to come on to something else, which is about where we go now. I must say, I tip my hat to the Financial Times, which is producing a lot of information, which I know Committee members have been following closely, and I certainly have. The Financial Times says at the time of t…”

“That will be concluded when?”

“If you did wish to continue with the existing contract, fine, but if you decided that you did not wish to continue the existing contract, we have just been hearing that it would require quite a lot of time to get a new tender out, to get other people to procure. Leaving it until December would be a bit late. Do you thi…”