Question follow-through · 23710
Home Office: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have used AI in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have used AI in the last 12 months.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
AI is being used for a range of purposes in the HO, including:to improve business delivery as part of overall digital improvements in the department with well-established systems such as e-Gates, to allow entry at the Border; in our passport service, to s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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