Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2024 to Question 19693 on Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence, on what date her Department decided not to publish that equality impact assessment.

Machine learning is currently used to flag cases requiring further examination. Our equality analysis found no issues of concern as set out in the Annual Report and Accounts.

The most recent consideration of the release of this information took place following receipt of Question 19693 on 13^th December 2024 where the department considered the balance between releasing information and protecting the effectiveness of our fraud prevention and detection methods.