Question follow-through · 14024
Artificial Intelligence: Trade Competitiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to keep the UK as a competitive place to invest in AI start-ups.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 22 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to keep the UK as a competitive place to invest in AI start-ups.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Nov 2024
Answer published
The UK has a competitive advantage in AI, with some of the world’s most innovative AI companies based here.The government commissioned an Action Plan in July, led by Matt Clifford to identify how AI can drive economic growth and explore untapped AI opport...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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