Department for Transport: Artificial Intelligence

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. The Department for Transport published the Transport Action Plan in June 2025 which sets out the Departments approach to Artificial Intelligence.

The Department for Transport provides officials, Ministers and special advisers with access to secure, enterprise-grade generative AI tools that have been assured to the appropriate security standards and approved for official use. Ministers, special advisers and officials may only use generative AI tools that the department has approved for official use.

The use of publicly available or consumer versions of generative AI tools, hosted outside DfT’s secure tenancy, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and Grok, for official business is not permitted unless a department has specifically assured and approved that tool.

Approved enterprise tools are configured so that departmental data is held securely and is not used to train publicly available AI models. The Department does permit a small number of specialist trained officials access to Google Gemini and other LLMs through Google Cloud Platform, following an approval process, but this does not currently extend to Ministers or Special Advisors.

The use of generative AI across government is governed by the cross-government Generative AI Framework for HMG and the AI Playbook for the UK Government, which set out the principles for the safe, responsible and effective use of these tools.