Question follow-through · 1761
Fraud: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what safeguard assessments have been put in place to prevent AI profiling of demographics while investigating fraud, as a result of the Quantexa deal.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what safeguard assessments have been put in place to prevent AI profiling of demographics while investigating fraud, as a result of the Quantexa deal.
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
HMRC applies robust data protection, ethical, legal and security frameworks to any use of artificial intelligence across all its activities, including in areas such as fraud investigation and any technology it employs. These tools are used to support HMRC...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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