Keir Starmer is to examine India's digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a massive success. Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India's digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licences.
Internal DWP documents obtained by Big Brother Watch show that the Universal Credit Advances model, used to risk score almost a million Advances claims each year, displays consistent, statistically significant bias.