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Payments: Artificial Intelligence

Commons · Question 25984 · Tabled 1 Sep 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 4 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Bob Blackman

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.

Answer

Answered by Lucy Rigby, 4 Sep 2026

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...

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