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Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Bell Ribeiro-AddyLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 28 July 2025UIN 69115

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) accountability in its use of AI systems in public services.

Answered by Andrew Western

We have AI governance in place to ensure we use AI in a safe, ethical, and transparent way. DWP is committed to publishing details of its use of algorithms against the cross-Government Algorithmic Transparency Reporting Standard (ATRS). We ensure our generative AI tools can trace outputs back to the source data so that humans can understand how the output has been created. Outputs from our use of AI technology are traceable for governance purposes.

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