Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) algorithmic and (b) other automated decision making systems her Department uses; and for what purposes.

Decisions on the department’s policy and grant funding allocations - while informed by data, analysis and relevant criteria - are made by Ministers.

Data processing is commonplace across all areas of department business, subject to set rules and criteria, as is the case for all organisations.