Question follow-through · 45101
Immigration: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where AI is being used in the immigration system; and whether she plans to extend the use of AI in the immigration system.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where AI is being used in the immigration system; and whether she plans to extend the use of AI in the immigration system.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
AI is used in multiple areas within the immigration system, for example in relation to image recognition, summarisation, triage, matching and analysis. We plan to continue to test and pilot how we can use AI, where appropriate to do so, to support effecti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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