Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many automated decision-making systems are currently used by the Home Office to assist with making decisions that affect people’s legal rights or entitlements; and how many of those have publicly available (1) equality impact assessments, and (2) data protection impact assessments.

“Assisting automated decision-making” is a broad term covering a large array of systems and processes, and the department does not keep a specific record of all systems that could fall within such a definition for this purpose.

The Home Office has well established processes for completing Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments to ensure data processing is lawful, necessary, and proportionate.