Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what purposes the Health and Safety Executive has used artificial intelligence in the last 12 months.

A team of data analysts within the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have been undertaking research activities to explore how AI approaches can be used to gain insights from HSE data whilst maintaining strict adherence to data ethics principles.

HSE policy is continuously reviewed and updated as innovative technologies arise. These may then be selected for use, following scrutiny within the business to ensure they meet HSE's standards on security, ethics and benefits.