Question follow-through · 125721
Asylum: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the accuracy of (a) benchmarking, (b) validation methods and (c) error rates of AI tools used in asylum casework.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the accuracy of (a) benchmarking, (b) validation methods and (c) error rates of AI tools used in asylum casework.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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20 Apr 2026
Answer published
There are two AI tools in use in asylum casework currently; Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS).Bench Marking & Validation - Both evaluations used a mixed-methods approach to collect primary data during and after the pilots....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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