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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 16 June 2026UIN 5297

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her departments permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude (d) Deepseek or (e) Grok as part of their official duties.

Answered by Kanishka Narayan

The Government is committed to harnessing the benefits of artificial intelligence to improve the productivity of the Civil Service and the quality of public services.

Approved enterprise tools are configured so that departmental data is held securely and is not used to train publicly available AI models. The use of generative AI across government is governed by the AI Playbook for the UK Government, which set out the principles for the safe, responsible and effective use of these tools.

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