Question follow-through · 25988
Payments: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of agent-initiated payments on the volume of low-value, high-frequency transactions and on the capacity of UK payment systems to process them.
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 assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of agent-initiated payments on the volume of low-value, high-frequency transactions and on the capacity of UK payment systems to process them.
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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