Question follow-through · 100648
Employment Schemes: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to use AI and digital technology to improve the efficacy of job and employment services.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to use AI and digital technology to improve the efficacy of job and employment services.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2025
Answer published
We are adopting AI in DWP to help colleagues deliver better outcomes for customers and to improve productivity and efficiency. We will develop the Jobs and Careers Service to better support jobseekers and employers. As part of the design of the service, w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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