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Siân Berry

MP for Brighton Pavilion (Green)

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“the Home Office already deploys two AI tools in asylum casework. The asylum policy search tool has operated since July 2025, and the asylum case summarisation tool was rolled out to all decision makers in April 2026. Both tools use OpenAI’s GPT-4.”
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Fifteenth sitting)UK House of Commons, November 3, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Siân Berry, introducing new clauses 37 and 38 in the Public Bill Committee on the Immigration and Asylum Bill.
“According to the Department’s own impact assessment, those tools summarise around 17,500 asylum cases every month, including interviews in which people share traumatic experiences relating to torture, persecution, their sexuality, faith and politics.”
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Fifteenth sitting)UK House of Commons, November 3, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Berry citing the Home Office's impact assessment for the two asylum AI tools.
“Neither is listed on the algorithmic transparency register, there is no independent audit and testing of the policy search tool has now stopped altogether.”
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Fifteenth sitting)UK House of Commons, November 3, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Berry's criticism of how the Home Office introduced the tools.

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  1. HearingUK House of CommonsSpeaks

    Immigration and Asylum Bill (Fifteenth sitting)

    In a House of Commons committee sitting on the Immigration and Asylum Bill, Green MP Siân Berry proposed banning AI from immigration and asylum decisions and barring use of case data for AI training. Border Security and Asylum Minister Anna Turley defended the Home Office's existing AI tools, and Berry withdrew both proposals.