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1699052

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the (a) Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service, (b) Enhanced Checking Service, (c) Risk Review Team, (d) Enhanced Review Teams, (e) Universal Credit advances claims decision risk model, (f) Common Risk Engine, (g) General Matching Service, (h) Fraud Referral and Intervention Management System, (i) Targeted Case Review and (j) any other systems rely on artificial intelligence, machine learning or algorithmic processes for fraud detection.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	20635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>As set out in the Department’s 2022/23 Annual Report and Accounts (page 308 to 310), DWP uses advanced analytics to tackle fraud and error. These analytics include a variety of sophisticated techniques including the use of machine learning to identify patterns in claims that could suggest fraud or error, so that these claims can be reviewed by relevant DWP teams such as the Enhanced Review Team. The final decision on benefit entitlement is made by a human caseworker.</p><p> </p><p>The National Audit Office confirm that DWP have governance and processes in place to monitor the bias of these models.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/04/2024 09:57:41 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1699054

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any of the claim detection criteria in the targeted case review system are applied by or operated through artificial intelligence, machine learning or algorithmic processes.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	20636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>As set out in the Department’s 2022/23 Annual Report and Accounts (page 308 to 310), DWP uses a range of advanced analytics to identify patterns in claims that could suggest fraud or error, so that these claims can be reviewed by relevant DWP teams including Targeted Case Review agents. The final decision on benefit entitlement is made by a human caseworker.</p><p> </p><p>The National Audit Office confirm that DWP have governance and processes in place to monitor the bias of these models.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/04/2024 09:53:56 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1694643

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the (a) Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service, (b) Enhanced Checking Service, (c) Risk Review Team, (d) Enhanced Review Teams, (e) Universal Credit advances claims decision risk model, (f) Common Risk Engine, (g) General Matching Service, (h) Fraud Referral and Intervention Management System (i) Targeted Case Review and (j) any other systems have been used as part of fraud surveillance in the benefits system in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	17601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>None of the teams or systems referenced carry out surveillance in the benefits system.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/03/2024 12:53:53 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1694644

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential for bias in the automated machine learning and decision-making systems used to audit.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	17602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>Please be assured that assessments of bias have been conducted for all IRIS machine learning models and the screening to date has not identified any areas of concern. The outcomes will be published in summer 2024 within DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The department always ensures appropriate safeguards are in place. There are detailed Data Protection Impact Assessments and Equality Analysis that accompany our machine learning models, and these are live documents that are kept updated. We also work closely with legal colleagues to ensure our use of machine learning is legal and proportionate. As an additional safeguard, all decisions on claims are made by DWP case workers based on all the facts and individual circumstances of the claim.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 17605 question first answered 14/03/2024 12:14:08 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1694645

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants referred by a DWP algorithm for case review as potentially containing fraud or error were (a) in receipt of disability benefit and (b) registered as disabled; and of these claims how many experienced benefits (i) stoppages and (ii) suspensions in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	17603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/03/2024 12:32:50 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1694646

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of cases in the targeted case review system were (a) discontinued and (b) endorsed on the grounds that they were likely to contain (i) fraud and (ii) error after being checked by a human reviewer in the most recent period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	17604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The TCR process is led by specialised agents to find incorrectness on claims and put it right. Prior to starting a claim review, agents will preview the claim to make sure it meets the criteria for selection. Claims selected for review are not endorsed on the grounds they are likely to contain fraud or error. It is only once a claim review is complete that an agent can determine the outcome. Performance for the financial year 22/23 is included in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">DWP Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) Report</a>, available on GOV.UK. The ARA report for financial year 23/24 is expected to be published Summer 2024.</p><p> </p><p>We do not categorise claims as discontinued. A claim may be deselected for review if it does not meet the criteria.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 13/03/2024 15:01:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1694647

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Q27 of the oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee on 10 January 2024, HC 417, what biases there are in the (a) AI and (b) machine learning systems used by his Department to detect and prevent fraud in the benefit system; and how these biases have been used to identify fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	17605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>Please be assured that assessments of bias have been conducted for all IRIS machine learning models and the screening to date has not identified any areas of concern. The outcomes will be published in summer 2024 within DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The department always ensures appropriate safeguards are in place. There are detailed Data Protection Impact Assessments and Equality Analysis that accompany our machine learning models, and these are live documents that are kept updated. We also work closely with legal colleagues to ensure our use of machine learning is legal and proportionate. As an additional safeguard, all decisions on claims are made by DWP case workers based on all the facts and individual circumstances of the claim.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 17602 question first answered 14/03/2024 12:14:08 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1679345

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Health and Safety Executive: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many inspections have the Health and Safety Executive conducted by sector in each year since 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	7924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of inspections, by year and by sector, carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for each financial year since 2017. HSE’s data deletion policy only allows for retention of detailed inspection data for up to 7 years, therefore data before 2017 can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?parent=health-and-safety-executive&amp;organisations%5B%5D=health-and-safety-executive&amp;order=updated-oldest" target="_blank">Gov.uk</a> website.</p><p> </p><p>The figures below are based on raw live data and can be subject to change due to updates to historical cases. Therefore these figures may differ to the figures published in the Annual Reports.</p><p> </p><p>‘Sector’ as used in this table is a term used by HSE internally and is a categorisation of the main economic activity of a workplace. The figures below include inspections to major hazard sites. A breakdown by sector is not always published in the Annual Reports as the focus will be on the respective priorities of business plan for that work year.</p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Year Inspected</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sector</strong></p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Agriculture</p></td><td><p>574</p></td><td><p>773</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>229</p></td><td><p>405</p></td><td><p>868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Construction</p></td><td><p>7,872</p></td><td><p>7,472</p></td><td><p>5,004</p></td><td><p>4,582</p></td><td><p>6,134</p></td><td><p>6,146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Extractive Utilities</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manufacturing</p></td><td><p>6,068</p></td><td><p>5,289</p></td><td><p>4,322</p></td><td><p>6,080</p></td><td><p>5,729</p></td><td><p>5,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Services</p></td><td><p>3,304</p></td><td><p>3,195</p></td><td><p>2,291</p></td><td><p>3,717</p></td><td><p>3,426</p></td><td><p>2,959</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Water/Waste Management</p></td><td><p>1,626</p></td><td><p>1,418</p></td><td><p>1,148</p></td><td><p>2,225</p></td><td><p>1,258</p></td><td><p>1,434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19,586</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18,194</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13,514</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,985</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>17,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,912</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/01/2024 14:21:37 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams