Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what equality impact assessment was carried out before awarding the Nexus AI contract to IBM; and what safeguards are in place to prevent algorithmic bias in those AI tools used in benefits administrati

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9 March 2026
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what equality impact assessment was carried out before awarding the Nexus AI contract to IBM; and what safeguards are in place to prevent algorithmic bias in those AI tools used in benefits administrati
Source: Commons
17 March 2026
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An Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) was not undertaken at the point of award of the Nexus contract. Nexus is a call-off contract with a broad scope which, of itself, does not directly introduce defined services or functionality into live operations. EIAs ...
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Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-03-09/118849
Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1888687
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