diff --git a/azure/templates/run-tests.yml b/azure/templates/run-tests.yml
index 8dfdd85..f5a0290 100644
--- a/azure/templates/run-tests.yml
+++ b/azure/templates/run-tests.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ parameters:
     default: 'make smoketest'
   - name: python_version
     type: string
-    default: 3.12
+    default: 3.13
 
 steps:
   - bash: |
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 9f3d1eb..87ebcaa 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 frozenlist = ">=1.1.0"
-typing-extensions = {version = ">=4.2", markers = "python_version < \"3.13\""}
 
 [[package]]
 name = "annotated-types"
@@ -1885,13 +1884,13 @@ windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pyjwt"
-version = "2.11.0"
+version = "2.12.0"
 description = "JSON Web Token implementation in Python"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "pyjwt-2.11.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:94a6bde30eb5c8e04fee991062b534071fd1439ef58d2adc9ccb823e7bcd0469"},
-    {file = "pyjwt-2.11.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:35f95c1f0fbe5d5ba6e43f00271c275f7a1a4db1dab27bf708073b75318ea623"},
+    {file = "pyjwt-2.12.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9bb459d1bdd0387967d287f5656bf7ec2b9a26645d1961628cda1764e087fd6e"},
+    {file = "pyjwt-2.12.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2f62390b667cd8257de560b850bb5a883102a388829274147f1d724453f8fb02"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -2432,5 +2431,5 @@ propcache = ">=0.2.1"
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
-python-versions = "^3.12"
-content-hash = "19353320c015513a8961b7d724d0db3144af2564e499fb357cee276d814d640b"
+python-versions = "^3.13"
+content-hash = "cc31c8564364636c9a860e023f10cf69ff37c6e296c45d47229197ec8ae5fac9"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b4c03bd..e712ea4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "address-quality-service-api"
-python = "^3.12"
+python = "^3.13"
 
 
 [tool.poetry]
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ package-mode = false
 
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.12"
+python = "^3.13"
 pytest-nhsd-apim = "^6.0.7"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]