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Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Lincoln JoppConservativeDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 18 March 2026UIN 119140

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many meetings Ministers and senior officials have held with representatives of (a) Anthropic, (b) OpenAI, (c) Google, (d) Microsoft, (e) Meta and (f) Palantir since July 2024.

Answered by Kanishka Narayan

The full details of Ministerial and senior civil servant-level meetings will be published publicly in quarterly transparency returns.

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