Question follow-through · 25984
Payments: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to establish liability and consumer redress arrangements for transactions initiated by an autonomous software agent acting outside the scope of its mandate.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to establish liability and consumer redress arrangements for transactions initiated by an autonomous software agent acting outside the scope of its mandate.
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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4 Sept 2026
Answer published
Payments are a fundamental component of a thriving financial sector, and the Government wants the UK to be at the forefront of the safe development of agentic payments. The Government’s National Payments Vision is for a trusted, world-leading payments eco...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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