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Asylum: Artificial Intelligence

Commons · Question 125721 · Tabled 10 Apr 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 20 Apr 2026

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Asked by Carla Denyer

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the accuracy of (a) benchmarking, (b) validation methods and (c) error rates of AI tools used in asylum casework.

Answer

Answered by Alex Norris, 20 Apr 2026

There are two AI tools in use in asylum casework currently; Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS).Bench Marking & Validation - Both evaluations used a mixed-methods approach to collect primary data during and after the pilots....