Question follow-through · 21804
Artificial Intelligence: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to regulate Artificial Intelligence.
About this written question
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
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to regulate Artificial Intelligence.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The vast majority of AI systems should be regulated at the point of use, and the UK's existing expert regulators are best placed to do this. The government is committed to ensuring that regulators have the right expertise and resources to make proportiona...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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