Communications about Palantir Foundry projects & data FOI request
Phil Booth made this Freedom of Information request to NHS England This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear NHS England,
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. For the purposes of the Act, please take the date of your receipt of this request as 1 October 2021.
Relating to NHS England’s response to FOI - 2106-1472935, as provided on 2nd July 2021, can you please provide:
1) Any communications sent or received by the FOI response team relating to FOI-2106-1472935 between 3 June 2021 – 30 September 2021;
2) For each person from outside the FOI response team who communicated with the FOI response team about FOI-2106-1472935, please provide any communications sent or received by them between 3 June 2021 – 30 September 2021 which relate to FOI-2106-1472935.
Your response to FOI - 2106-1472935 - which failed to answer my request(s), and for which an internal review has been requested and is still awaiting a response - is publicly available here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
Yours faithfully,
Phil Booth
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Dear Phil Booth,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 01 October
2021. Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to
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“Dear NHS England,
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. For
the purposes of the Act, please take the date of your receipt of this
request as 1 October 2021. Relating to NHS England’s response to FOI -
2106-1472935, as provided on 2nd July 2021, can you please provide:
1) Any communications sent or received by the FOI response team relating
to FOI-2106-1472935 between 3 June 2021 – 30 September 2021;
2) For each person from outside the FOI response team who communicated
with the FOI response team about FOI-2106-1472935, please provide any
communications sent or received by them between 3 June 2021 – 30 September
2021 which relate to FOI-2106-1472935.
Your response to FOI - 2106-1472935 - which failed to answer my
request(s), and for which an internal review has been requested and is
still awaiting a response - is publicly available here:
[1]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
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Dear NHS England,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review both of NHS England's handling of my FOI request 'Communications about Palantir Foundry projects & data FOI request', made on 1 October 2021:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
and the request to which it refers, i.e. 'Projects and data in NHS England's installation of Palantir Foundry', made on 3 June 2021:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
The public record on WhatDoTheyKnow shows that NHS England has not replied to my previous request for an internal review, orginally made on 8 July 2021:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
Instead, in response to my later request, NHS England has merely provided a copy of the response it had already given in July 2021 - the substance of which fails to address my request - and a series of memos that show no indication an internal review has been performed.
Can I please therefore request an internal review on three counts:
1) NHS England's 2 July reply said the information I requested would be published in the COVID-19 Data Store dissemination register "in July 2021". The register was not published until 12 August but, more importantly, no information on the projects and data in NHS England's installation of Palantir Foundry was published in it. NHS England has therefore failed to provide the information that it indicated would be published in due course.
2) Quite aside from what is or isn't in the register, NHS England has failed to provide what I actually asked for - namely, the list of Palantir Foundry ‘projects’ which have been reviewed for data access, and a copy of the 'data catalogue' which lists all datasets within the Foundry platform that are available to 'projects'.
3) NHS England's failure to perform an internal review when requested, i.e. on 8 July 2021, having already avoided providing some or all of the requested information by pointing to a future publication that did not contain what was requested.
Alternatively, please would you provide screenshots of the relevant Palantir Foundry pages as originally requested (these need not contain any personally identifying information) rather than further delay and obfuscation.
Yours faithfully,
Phil Booth
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Dear NHS England,
Further to my request for an internal review on 13 December 2021:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
On the basis that:
1) NHS England's 2 July reply said the information I requested would be published in the COVID-19 Data Store dissemination register "in July 2021". The register was not published until 12 August but, more importantly, no information on the projects and data in NHS England's installation of Palantir Foundry was published in it. NHS England has therefore failed to provide the information that it indicated would be published in due course.
2) Quite aside from what is or isn't in the register, NHS England has failed to provide what I actually asked for - namely, the list of Palantir Foundry ‘projects’ which have been reviewed for data access, and a copy of the 'data catalogue' which lists all datasets within the Foundry platform that are available to 'projects'.
3) NHS England's failure to perform an internal review when requested, i.e. on 8 July 2021, having already avoided providing some or all of the requested information by pointing to a future publication that did not contain what was requested.
I am writing to inquire as to the status of the review, as I have received nothing but an automated response since then.
Yours faithfully,
Phil Booth
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