Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what processes are in place to enable individuals to seek human review and to challenge decisions made by automated systems in the context of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.

The department does not currently have tools, products or processes that rely on automated decision making.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 clarified safeguards relating to solely automated decision-making. Individuals who are subject to significant decisions made solely through automated processing must be provided with information about the decision and have the right to challenge it, make representations and obtain human intervention.