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Asylum: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor outcomes from the Asylum Case Summarisation system to ensure that summaries are not provided to caseworkers if they (a) include missing information and (

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Apr 2026
Target answer date
28 Apr 2026
Answer
28 Apr 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor outcomes from the Asylum Case Summarisation system to ensure that summaries are not provided to caseworkers if they (a) include missing information and (

  2. 28 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) was designed with the ‘Human in the Loop’ principle in mind. This means it is not possible for decision makers to use the tool to decide an asylum claim; it is an aid to case working. The tool uses a Large Language Model to...

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