Department for Work and Pensions

…how policies impact people but another area that we do a lot of work on is how the DWP is increasingly using things like data analytics and machine learning that's been identified by the National Audit Office as having a real risk of bias within it but where the DWP is on record as saying they don't have the data or the way of knowing whether that bias is i…

…What we've seen recently in terms of that statistics is that some people are more likely to be impacted or harmed by the sanctions regime than others, which also raises a whole host of concerns about how decisions are taken by the DWP in terms of...…

…I think most people, regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, if you have something that's been found not to work and which causes harm, that's probably not a policy that is a good one to be applying to people. More broadly, we have also got concerns about how fit DWP is to understand who is being impacted by things and how.…