Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence
(asked on 12th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many automated decision-making systems are currently used by the Department of Work and Pensions (partially or wholly) to make decisions that affect people’s legal rights or entitlements; and how many of those have publicly available (1) equality impact assessments, and (2) data protection impact assessments.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
I refer the noble Lord to the answer given to PQ 187258 in relation to automated decision making systems in use by DWP.
The department has robust processes to ensure ethical use and impact of data is considered, which includes Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments for large-scale transformative initiatives that involve personal data, aligned with data-ethics frameworks, codes of practice, and working principles for analytical communities within the department that work with personal data.
However, we currently have no plans to publish further details of these services.
The DWP’s Personal Information Charter (PIC) ensures that its customers are aware of the DWP’s use of automated decision making.