Biography
Martin Wrigley has engaged primarily through debate speeches on NHS and healthcare infrastructure issues, with particular focus on general practice funding in the South West and concerns about the NHS Federated Data Platform's reliance on Palantir. His contributions highlight systemic challenges including insufficient GP funding, rising patient-to-GP ratios, practice closures, and technical governance concerns around NHS data systems, alongside engagement with wider support issues including special educational needs and adoption services.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…It claims to have achieved waiting list reductions by removing people who do not respond to messages, but there is no external scrutiny or validation of results. This is a dreadful contract, and it is not in the national interest.…”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism221st of 89918.0
- Heart disease & stroke41st of 3989.0
- GP access29th of 2419.0
- Mental health386th of 8809.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
- Long Covid16th of 553.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
What they’ve said
“I beg to move, That this House has considered the NHS Federated Data Platform. We are at a key time for the NHS as it changes from analogue to digital, and data is key to achieving better health results for all our constituents, as well as to the future of the NHS.”
NHS Federated Data Platform · 2026-04-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…NHS England’s October 2025 medium-term planning framework mandates all NHS providers of acute, community and mental health services to sign up to the FDP, and it demands that any existing local data analysis systems are removed.”
NHS Federated Data Platform · 2026-04-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Will the Minister cancel the expansion of the FDP to community and mental health service providers? Palantir is the wrong supplier. Its name comes from a magical seeing stone in “The Lord of the Rings”. It is how the evil lord Sauron corrupted the good wizard Saruman—I think we should have known at the beginning.”
NHS Federated Data Platform · 2026-04-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Others have been revived and sustained by councils that saw the benefits to public health, community cohesion and the local economy. Future Lidos, which connects, represents and advocates for lidos across the UK and Ireland, lists 125 operating lidos and 40 projects either developing new pools or working to revive thes…”
Public Baths and Lidos · 2026-03-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“On reading the clause, I too was concerned about the costs for SEND. Devon, which is a very rural county, spends something like—from memory—£50 million a year on taxis to move children across the county who require special schools in different areas. A 20% tax on that would equate to £10 million.”
Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting) · 2026-01-29 · Read on Hansard ↗
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