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Ministry of Defence: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 17 June 2026UIN 6332

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department permits (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials to use (i) Chat GPT, (ii) Google Gemini, (iii) Claude, (iv) Deepseek and (v) Grok as part of their official duties.

Answered by Luke Pollard

The Ministry of Defence provides Ministers, special advisers and officials with access to secure, enterprise‑grade generative AI tools that have been assured to the appropriate security standards and approved for official use.

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