Speeches by Coleman.

“I understand. Thank you for explaining that. You are going to be deciding by December whether to extend Palantir’s contract. Is that correct?”

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

“You are undertaking an analysis at the moment that will inform that decision. Is that correct?”

“Are you confident that, if you took the decision in December, you would be able to have a new provider in place by April?”

“What assessment was made of the capability?”

“Is the Imperial College evaluation going to report before or after the Department completes its review of Palantir, to help inform the decision it takes on whether to extend the contract?”

“I want to talk a bit about what is being called the break clause. Does it exist? Is there really a break clause? My understanding—I just wanted to get your understanding to clarify this, and we will also clarify it with the Minister later—is that the contract ends next year. There is the potential to extend it by two y…”

“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 contract will come up for review.”

“There is a review taking place, which Imperial College Projects is undertaking. You will have to take a decision. If I am correct, the contract ends unless the Government decide to extend it. We are talking about break clauses, but my understanding is that there is no such thing as a break clause here. We are talking a…”

“I know what it is looking at. You must assume that we have done a lot of homework. We know what people are looking at.”

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

“Thank you all for coming, and congratulations on your new position, Preet. It is great to see you all here. I would like to ask a few questions because, in looking to the future and what happens next, we need to look at the past. Could I look a bit at the procurement of the Palantir contract? My concern is that we have…”

“Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?”

“Now will he give way?”

“10. What steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to try work without automatically triggering a benefits reassessment.”

“I thank the Minister for that positive answer. Could he reassure my disabled constituents under the age of 22, many of whom are in education and low-paid work, that they will not lose their universal credit health payments? This financial support is vital to helping young disabled people, because they face the greatest…”

“As my hon. Friend will know, my constituency neighbours his. In my constituency, the North End Road area of Fulham is a designated gambling vulnerability zone and has been identified as such by the council. It borders the Clem Attlee and West Kensington estates, which are both in the bottom deciles nationally for depri…”

“I thank the Minister for being so responsive to the concerns about strategic licensing that I and colleagues in London have shared with her. May I confirm that it is not the Government’s intention for an application to be treated as being of potential strategic importance solely by reason of its location within a Londo…”

“I am most grateful to my hon. and learned Friend for calling this important debate. I am also very grateful to my constituent Louise Thompson for having the guts and the decency to parlay what was an absolutely horrible experience into a determination to make life better for women across this country and improve matern…”