To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2023 to Question 186405 on Universal Credit: Fraud, whether he plans to publish the equalities assessment of trials using machine learning algorithms to detect fraud in claims for Universal Credit advances.
Answered on
12 June 2023
The DWP will not publish the equalities assessment (EA). Providing specific information contained within our EA would enable fraudsters to understand our services and the way our IT systems work, leading to new frauds and greater losses to the public purse.
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Department for Work and Pensions
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