Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to review the 18-month limit for Bereavement Support Payment.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 September 2026 to Question UIN 26385.

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that public bodies deploying artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies in public services retain clearly defined human responsibility for explaining decisions made using those technologies and providing mechanisms for those decisions to be challenged and, where appropriate, reversed.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)

The Government recognises that the safe, reliable and accountable use of artificial intelligence is important to maintaining public trust in public services.

Departments deploying AI systems are expected to consider risks and impacts throughout the system lifecycle, including during design, development, deployment and operation. This includes compliance with safety, transparency, accountability, data protection rules and regulations.

The Government has published guidance to support this, including the Data and AI Ethics Framework, and the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard, which support transparency, accountability and governance in the use of AI across the public sector.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that religious education in schools in England includes teaching about non-religious worldviews, including humanism.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The department recognises that non-religious worldviews, including humanism, can play an important role in supporting pupils’ understanding of beliefs and values. Religious education (RE) is not part of the national curriculum but is a mandatory subject for all pupils aged 5 to 18 in state-funded schools in England. Schools should deliver RE in an objective, critical and pluralistic way and already have the flexibility through their locally agreed syllabuses to include the study of non-religious world views such as humanism.

The Curriculum and Assessment Review recommended that government should explore including RE in the national curriculum, contingent on sector consensus. The sector group has reached a consensus and the department will consult on a draft RE curriculum in line with the national curriculum consultation.

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