Question follow-through · 126637

Asylum: Impact Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish the (a) Data Protection Impact Assessment and (b) Equality Impact Assessment for the (i) Asylum Case Summarisation and (ii) Asylum Policy Search tools.

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Home Office
Tabled
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
15 Apr 2026
Answer
20 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 13 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish the (a) Data Protection Impact Assessment and (b) Equality Impact Assessment for the (i) Asylum Case Summarisation and (ii) Asylum Policy Search tools.

  2. 15 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    It has not yet been confirmed whether the Department intends to publish a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for either the Asylum Policy Search tool ([ii] APS; fully rolled out) and/or the Asylum Case Summarisation tool ([i] ACS; full roll out due ...

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