Speeches by Malthouse.

“Okay.”

“Sorry, the decision was made to get rid of NHS England without there being a plan for what would replace some of the critical functions like yours. Are you just working on that plan now?”

“You guys are one of the enablers of technology in the NHS. What is going to happen when you are swept away?”

“That sounds like a yes. My second question is allied to that. Obviously, Palantir has reputational difficulty. Everybody is slightly suspicious about what you do. Part of that reputational difficulty has been caused by your software being used in the war on Gaza and the targeting of Palestinians with particular charact…”

“Forgive me, but that was not really the question I asked. I asked you a practical question. If I have a large pool of data about a set of individuals and, in a defensive or offensive capability, I wish to target particular individuals with particular characteristics, your AI would allow me to do that.”

“If I may ask a practical question and then a question related to reputation, you said that you were basically different from what people use your AI for. In a defence environment, for example, would it be possible for a Government to use your AI applied to data about individuals to target particular ones for attack?”

“It is just license and support.”

“Other than the direct money that the NHS pays you on invoice for the production of servers, there is no further revenue stream that emanates from NHS activity.”

“So the Palantir system is not error reporting and performance reporting through to headquarters, wherever your headquarters is in the States.”

“What about your software, or middleware, maintenance? Where is it maintained from? Presumably someone in California can use remote access to fiddle around with the software.”

“There is no Oracle involvement in the process at all?”

“What platform is used to hold the data? What is the database platform? Is it Oracle?”

“I want to ask a couple of questions about the architecture. You say that the NHS data is sitting in an Amazon web server in the UK.”

“I want to be clear—so that the House is clear—about the opt-out to which both Ministers have referred. Is it a correct interpretation to say that it is not an opt-out at the discretion of the trustees of the fund, and that the Bill requires them to apply to the regulator with evidence for the regulator to make a decisi…”

“My hon. Friend is making a strong speech and some strong points. Does he agree that the alarm bells he is ringing about financial education, the under-provision of pensions and longevity are even more stark and alarming next to the demographic change that means that over the next 30 years, we will see the number of wor…”

“The hon. Gentleman is making a good point, but does he accept that illiquid investments, by their very nature, tend to be more volatile, and that from a risk-adjusted point of view they therefore represent much higher risk for investors? He mentioned investment in life sciences companies; he will be aware of the collap…”

“I do not dispute the fact that there are too many small funds that are suboptimal; my question is whether it should be the Government who correct that. If, for example, I am a member of a small suboptimal pension fund and the Government, through the Bill, consolidate it with another pension fund, and it turns out that …”

“I congratulate the hon. Member for Tamworth (Sarah Edwards) on her speech. I am afraid, however, that you, Madam Deputy Speaker, will have to forgive me for puncturing the air of bonhomie and positivity about the Bill, because I am really not content with it. Frankly, I feel it is my duty as an Opposition Back Bencher …”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Along with 6.5 million fellow members, I am a member of the local government pension scheme, through my proud membership of the London Pensions Fund Authority. We are uniquely affected by the Pension Schemes Bill, which we are about to contemplate. I am therefore concerned tha…”

“But I have paid into that scheme.”