IRIS Common Risk Engine
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
According to the DWP commercial pipeline at April 2022 (https://www.gov.uk/government/collection...) "[t]he Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) provides a service to identify both singleton and organised fraud and error. Post-Covid crisis IRIS has been challenged to be near real time and adapt faster to changing Modus Operandi. To improve fraud and error prevention, and support the drive towards self-service interactions we need to run better rules with increased accuracy, increase the use of machine learning, improving predictive modelling and integrate with a new Case Management system and Identity service to assess claims for risk."
According to the information published by DWP the contract for this work had the title 'IRIS Common Risk Engine' and was estimated to run for 6 months from 01/07/2022.
Paragraph 48 of the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, published in July 2022 with the DWP Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...), stated that DWP had trialled a risk model which used a machine learning algorithm in order to detect fraud.
Fig.1 in the May 2022 Policy Paper 'Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System' shows how IRIS fits into DWP's wider anti-fraud activity (https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...).
Please provide:
1. all Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for the Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) updated to account for the expansion of IRIS referred to in the DWP commercial pipeline;
And, of those DPIAs, please provide:
2. information indicating whether or not each DPIA was sent to the ICO;
3. any written advice or formal warnings provided by the ICO regarding each DPIA;
4. (if relevant) documented reasons for not carrying out a DPIA.
Yours faithfully,
Owen Stevens
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Dear Owen Stevens,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 1st
February.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'IRIS Common Risk Engine'.
Please read this response (on 21/2/23) to an earlier request and, in responding to this request for an internal review, justify taking a different approach to that which the Department took when responding to the earlier request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...
Yours faithfully,
Owen Stevens
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