Question follow-through · 16592
Artificial Intelligence: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse is of AI training programmes for civil servants.
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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 6 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse is of AI training programmes for civil servants.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Dec 2024
Answer published
Learning in the civil service can be sourced either at a department level or centrally via a cross government learning framework. We are unable to share total consolidated spend but the spend associated with AI training purchased via the learning framewor...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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