Question follow-through · 14028

Employment: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to help protect jobs that could otherwise be replaced by increased use of artificial intelligence.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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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

  1. 13 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to help protect jobs that could otherwise be replaced by increased use of artificial intelligence.

  2. 18 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    New technologies, including AI, have the potential to boost wages, drive up productivity and empower workers. The government’s approach to new technologies is to protect good jobs, enable good future jobs and ensure rights and protections keep pace with t...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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