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Dstl: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of how many UK-based supply chain jobs are supported by DSTL’s AI programme.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
4 Sept 2024
Answer
19 Sept 2024 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of how many UK-based supply chain jobs are supported by DSTL’s AI programme.

  2. 4 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    Dstl does not have a mechanism to record the number of jobs supported (either exclusively or in part) by its suppliers or through the lower tiers of the supply chain.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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