Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many automated decision-making systems are currently in use by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, even partially, to make decisions that affect people’s legal rights or entitlements; and how many of those systems have publicly available equality impact assessments or data protection impact assessments or both.

The Department’s analysts use machine learning techniques as part of analytical support to policy development. However, there is no use of such algorithms for automated decision making.