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Administration of Justice: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 79555

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled AI action plan for justice, published on 31 July 2025, if he will list the secure AI productivity tools he will introduce in order to reduce the administrative burden in his Department.

Answered by Jake Richards

All Ministry of Justice staff now have access to a secure version of Microsoft Copilot Chat (a secure, web-based assistant for general queries), with further rollout of Microsoft Copilot 365 (the fully integrated AI capability within Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams) planned.

The Ministry of Justice has also been piloting ChatGPT Enterprise from OpenAI.

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