Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many automated decision-making systems are currently in use by the Department for Transport, even partially, to make decisions that affect people’s legal rights or entitlements; and how many of those systems have publicly available equality impact assessments or data protection impact assessments or both.

Various analytical systems are used in the Department for Transport to inform decisions that are ultimately made by Ministers. These systems are, however, designed to provide insight at an aggregate level; they do not pertain to any particular individuals and are not based on any personal data. They therefore do not inform any decisions that have an effect on specific individual’s legal rights or entitlements. Consequently, no Data Protection Impact Assessments or Equality Impact Assessments have been published in relation to these systems.

The department publishes a list of business-critical models that provides details of their purposes.