Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 15336
Department for Business and Trade: Artificial Intelligence
Tabled: 2 July 2026
Answered: 10 July 2026
Question
Andy McDonald
Labour — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that human oversight of automated decisions is (a) substantive and (b) effective.
Answer
Kate DeardenThe Department does not currently have tools, products or processes that rely on automated decision-making. Reforms to the solely automated decision-making provisions in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 make clear that such decisions are those made with...
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