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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have used AI in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have used AI in the last 12 months.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the heart of the new Government’s plan to kickstart an era of economic growth, transform how we deliver public services, and boost living standards for working people across the country. As of January 2025, officials are...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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